Tragedy strikes two air shows

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Tragedy strikes two air

shows

Collisions

in Saskatchewan, Delaware kill at least 3 pilots

Monday, July 11, 2005; Posted: 12:13 a.m. EDT (04:13 GMT)

 

MOOSE JAW, Saskatchewan (AP) --

Two small planes collided Sunday at an air show in central Canada, killing both

pilots instantly, while in Delaware, two planes practicing for a show collided

and killed at least one of the pilots, officials said.

Witnesses at the show in Canada said one plane came from

beneath and collided with the second craft. Both burst into flames and crashed.

No spectators were hurt, but the air show in Moose Jaw, about 120 miles north

of the Montana border, was immediately canceled.

The pilots were members of the U.S.-based Masters of

Disaster civilian aerobatics team. A third plane involved in the dogfight

simulation landed safely.

Clive Tolley, executive director of the air show, said Canada's Transport Safety Board would be arriving Monday to launch an

investigation into the crash.

" It was a civilian performance that has been practiced

many, many times and done in a safe manner many, many times, " Tolley said.

Some relatives of the dead pilots had been at the air show

and were taken to a nearby military base while officials tried to notify family

members in the United States.

Additional information on the pilots was not immediately

available.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/07/10/air.shows.ap/index.html

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Training

crash

In the other crash, two small planes in training for a

performance collided above Delaware Bay, state police said.

Rescue crews retrieved one body and divers searched the

waters near Cape Henlopen State Park for the other pilot until evening but were unable to locate the

plane's

wreckage, police said.

The two had been part of a six-plane formation of

experimental " homemade kit " planes that took off from Sussex County Airport in Georgetown.

As the pilots practiced over the bay, Matt Colagreco and his

grandparents watched from a ferry.

The six planes had been flying in two groups of three and

crossed paths to merge momentarily, Colagreco said. After they came out of the

merge, one pilot banked right in front of another and they collided, he said.

One plane turned over and nosedived into the water, and the

other " was flopping out of control, " Colagreco said.

" It was just like two toy planes hitting, " said

his grandmother, Nancy Beyers.

State police recovered the body of Jay Blume, 39, of Berwyn, Pennsylvania.

The other plane was registered to Ralph D. Morgan of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, said Kathleen Bergen, a

spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration. She said the FAA and the

National Transportation Safety Board were investigating.

Cape Henlopen, the point where Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean, is the site of Fort Miles, a coastal defense fort

built at the start of World War II.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/07/10/air.shows.ap/index.html

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