Air show interrupted for NWA emergency

The folks who showed up for the Dayton Air Show on Sunday got a little extra action for free when a Northwest Airlines flight made an emergency landing putting the festivities briefly on hold. The Boeing 757 was heading from Tampa to Detroit when one of its engines had an in-flight computer failure. The flight crew shut down that engine and made a precautionary lading at the Dayton International Airport, right in the middle of their annual air show. The show's commentator announced over the loudspeaker, "All right, a piece of cake," as the crowd applauded the safe landing and rollout of the 757. The air show continued after a 25 minute delay, but the passengers of the Northwest flight spent the rest of their trip to Detroit on a bus.

(photo credit: James Mepsted via Airliners.net)

(story USA Today)

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Stunt pilot pushes helo a little too hard (into the ground)

Dennis Kenyon has made a career out of crazy stunt flying. He also nearly killed himself doing just that on Friday when his Schweizer-Hughes 300 dug a hole in the ground with Kenyon at the controls during a performance at the Utah Rotorcraft Association Fly In in Cedar Valley. Kenyon was attempting a "wing-over" with either too much speed or not enough altitude when he crashed his tiny helicopter into the West Desert Airpark dirt infield. Suffering only minor injuries including bleeding from the head, the veteran stunt pilot is reconsidering early retirement.

Video is a little long with the good stuff only in the last 20 seconds.

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Italian helo crashes into lake

Unfortunately, these days air shows and crashes seem to go hand in hand. This particular accident happened on Sunday at the Bracciano Lake in Italy in front of the Italian Air Force Museum, at Vigna di Valle airport. Sadly, Cap Filippo Fornassi of 1 Gr Sq of the Italian Army based in Viterbo last his life. The 2 other individuals on board the NH-90 helicopter were severly injured, but rescued. It looks like they were coming out of some sort of a loop when the helo got a little too close to the water.

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Crazy Fighter Jet Crash

This is an interesting video of a MiG 29 crash taken at an airshow from multiple angles, pretty amazing.

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