”The Cold Lake Air Show was cancelled in northeast Alberta Sunday afternoon after a plane crashed during a performance and killed the pilot, according to an official with CFB Cold Lake.
Capt. Strong, 4 Wing at CFB Cold Lake’s public information officer, told Global News a T28 Trojan crashed around 2 p.m. He said the pilot, Bruce Evans, did not survive.
Trish Hartman, an Edmonton woman watching the show, told Global News Evans was announced as being from Calgary.
People attending the air show were being escorted away from the grounds.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada told Global News it was sending a team of investigators to CFB Cold Lake and that they were expected to arrive Sunday evening.
The propeller-driven aircraft was used to train pilots in the 1950s and 1960s.
Cathy Heron, a spectator, says the plane did a loop, inverted and the dove straight down. She said there weren’t any flames when it hit the ground.”
http://globalnews.ca/news/2830228/alberta-air-show-cancelled-after-plane-crash/
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July 17, 2016 at 10:57 pm