Incident in Florida

[GRNDP51]

Not good. Prayers prayers prayers... Most of you will know this plane...

https://cbs12.com/news/local/plane-cras ... -in-stuart

[marine air]

Grumman OV-1 Mohawk, not North American OV-10 Bronco. The N-number is confusing. Hard today what happened from the video. He may or may not have been doing aerobatics or had a health issue. You can hear that one or both engines were running at the time of impact. Very sad and condolences to all.
Was it Richard Sugden?

[marine air]

Grumman OV-1 Mohawk, not North American OV-10 Bronco. The N-number is confusing. Hard today what happened from the video. He may or may not have been doing aerobatics or had a health issue. You can hear that one or both engines were running at the time of impact. Very sad and condolences to all.
Was it Richard Sugden?

[Warbirdnerd]

Sad day for sure. Condolences to his friends and family.

http://mohawkairshows.com/

[ZRX61]

Bang seats deactivated?

[Randy Haskin]

Bang seats deactivated?

Even if they were active, given the rate of descent for the last 5+ seconds of flight, there's no way they would have saved him. Even the best ejection seats in the world have substantial difficulty overcoming sink rates.

[marine air]

Talked to someone that knows him personally and was at the show. He wasn’t doing aerobatics and wasn’t coming out of the bottom of a loop. The thought right now is that he became impaired. Note that there’s no attempt to change the trajectory or raise the nose above the horizon. It also might have been a mechanical, such as flight control failure. I don’t know the OV-1. These are the thoughts of those that saw it happen.

[marine air]

Talked to someone that knows him personally and was at the show. He wasn’t doing aerobatics and wasn’t coming out of the bottom of a loop. The thought right now is that he became impaired. Note that there’s no attempt to change the trajectory or raise the nose above the horizon. It also might have been a mechanical, such as flight control failure. I don’t know the OV-1. These are the thoughts of those that saw it happen.