CRASH ON VIDEO
09 Jun 2010
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Scene from the film 'Legends of Flight', not from the crash!
A PRISTINE Boeing Stearman crashed on landing during a promotion for the premiere of a new movie 'Legends of Flight'. Worse, in the passenger seat was a reporter who filmed the whole incident with a video camera.
The crash happened when pilot and owner of the Stearman, Mike Truschel, took Washington Post reporter Ashley Halsey for a flight in the 1943 restored aircraft. A total of eight Stearmans were flying from Washington's Reagan National Airport to promote the new movie.
The biplane flipped onto its back while landing. Halsey said, "I could hear the propeller crunch as it hit the tarmac. We were hanging upside-down on our shoulder harnesses."
No reason for the crash has yet been established. Both the pilot and reporter were unhurt.
The 3-D movie which will be shown at IMAX cinemas is about aircraft that have changed the history of flight, including the Stearman. The maiden flight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is also shown and Captain Mike Carriker, Boeing's chief pilot for the 787 program, narrates the film.
Watch the Washington Post video of the crash, click here
For more about the 'Legends of Flight' movie, click here
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