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Old 09-25-2016, 03:28 AM
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Originally Posted by JohnMac
Whilst you are aplauding the obvious pilot skill, I would just point out that this barely controlled model was flying directly towards the crowd (including me) and landed about 20 metres from flight attendants at the other side of the runways. The pilot has a duty of care at all times, towards those around him. Clearly this guy had more ego than brains. He had acres of grass to safetly dump the model in and probably with less damage too.
John
John

I was not there, was this one a number of similar planes being flown and did the organisers ground the others following the wing failure?

John