Preliminary report: Pilot possibly incapacitated in airshow crash

News 13 Sunday 24th April, 2011

killed while performing at a Florida airshow may have been incapacitated just before the crash. Bill Walker, 58, of Cookeville died on March 26 after his single-engine stunt plane broke from an aerobatics formation and fell to the ground at the Wings Over Flagler Fly-In in Bunnell. The National Transportation Safety Board, which investigated the crash along with the Federal Aviation Administration, said in preliminary findings last week that Walker did not respond to radio calls shortly before the crash, the Cookeville Herald-Citizen reported. Walker was flying a Yak-52, which was originally designed as a Soviet warplane and now is popular at airshows.

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