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Mustang / Skyraider Crash

Loss of P-51 "Big Beautiful Doll" at Flying Legends after mid-air with Skyraider. In a testament to the Douglas Skyraider, it had four feet of wing removed and managed to successfully land. The P-51 lost control and the pilot safely bailed out.

Pay particular attention to the recovery of the Skyraider. Absolutely incredible flying skills.

No injuries.

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Added: Jul-12-2011 Occurred On: Jul-12-2011
By: saturn5
In: Citizen Journalism
Tags: mustang, skyraider, mid air, flying legends
Marked as: approved
Views: 7486 | Comments: 12 | Votes: 2 | Favorites: 2 | Shared: 22 | Updates: 0 | Times used in channels: 2
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  • glad to see that pink chute open up.does anything ever go right at these airshows or what?

    Posted Jul-12-2011 By 
    vargas123 (531.78)  
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  • Lucky. Good flying skills

    Posted Jul-12-2011 By 
    macabyte (55.60)  

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  • The skyraider was a durable reliable heavy duty CAS plane that could carry a heavy payload. they need to stop flying these antiques unles they are replicas

    Posted Jul-12-2011 By 
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  • If I were the Skyraider pilot i'd feel like shit. Hey sorry you lost your P-51 cause I rammed it bro...oh my plane? Its ok, a little repair needed on the wing and its good.

    Posted Jul-12-2011 By 
    Lipton.br (127.80)  

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  • wow. Lucky!

    Posted Jul-13-2011 By 
    KarlNapf (368.84)  

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  • THAT MOTHER FUCKERRR !!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Posted Jul-13-2011 By 
    I_still_likeairplanes (133.10)  
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  • good thing he jumped out in time! 3 more seconds he would've been in a lot more trouble!

    Posted Jul-13-2011 By 
    xyzzjp (101.80)  

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  • I would have been weeping the whole way down in my chute, then looking to choke the living shit out of the A-1 pilot when I touched down!!

    Posted Jul-13-2011 By 
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  • American Ground attack aircraft.. Built to destroy and not be destroyed! Looks like the P51 was knocked out of it's airflow and stalled causing the crash. Thank god the pilot got out. Still a hit like that and both pilots survive.... Western aircraft engineering at it's finest!

    Posted Jul-13-2011 By 
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    • @Aariss
      Lol, "knocked out if its airflow", he lost his elevator and part of the tail on the crash the plane was unflyable, it never stalled, just nose dove and crashed.

      Posted Sep-18-2011 By 
      Lipton.br (127.80)  

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  • What's really amazing is the lack of a post-crash fire. Mustangs use avgas, not jet fuel. When they auger in, there's usually a huge fireball. That's another stroke of luck for the P-51 pilot. He bailed out so late that if there had been a fireball, he likely would have become part of it.

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