![]() ![]() Two Apache forest workers rescued the injured men, but ever since they lept from the cockpit, they haven't seen the plane since. "I smashed my head on the back of the ground, and the helmet saved the day," said Carlson in a video he recorded on his phone while stranded in the woods. Ken got stuck in a tree more than 30 feet off the ground and fell onto a tree that toppled him to the ground, breaking some bones in his face. "It was basically, you have to jump now, and if you're not going to jump now, you're not going to make it," said Kyle Kistner, Carlson's son-in-law, who lives in the Valley.īoth Ken and Ron bailed out of the plane and deployed their parachutes.Ĭarlson's went off when he was so low to the ground he injured his ankle and broke a rib. "We had the engine problem, and the engine basically almost came off the airplane," said Carlson. "We were flying back to Chicago when the accident happened," Carlson said.Īfter fueling up in Phoenix, the duo took off towards Albuquerque. It was a sunny day," Carlson recalled.Ĭarlson and his friend and co-pilot Ken were flying the plane from California. Right now, there is one less plane in circulation, after Carlson's crashed last year. There’s only 15 or 20 of them left in the world," said Carlson, who had the plane shipped from Australia to California. ![]() It’s part of our heritage from World War II. Ron Carlson loves his "1945 Grumman TBM Avenger." The only difficulty is the plane likely went down on the Fort Apache Reservation, and the tribe does not allow trespassers and has already caught and fined people searching for the rare warbird. After the accident the pilot described the visibility limitations in the Yak, particularly when landing, and said he never saw the cherry pickers.One man is willing to give you $30,000 if you're able to help locate his World War II plane that crashed last year in northeastern Arizona. More than one pilot, including the pilot of Yak 2 left the briefing with the very clear impression that the full width of the grass was available for landing. ![]() The expectation of both Yak aircraft landing on the sealed runway and not hearing the position and intentions report from the pilot of Yak 2 resulted in no information about the cherry pickers being passed to the pilot.ĭiscussion pertaining to operations on the full width grass occurred amongst air show participants. The pilot of Yak 2 had made a radio call reporting he was on base leg for the grass but the content of this transmission was not heard in the Tower. During the landing roll Yak 2 collided with cherry pickers that had been placed on the grass area north of the sealed runway. The Yak pilots planned and flew a simple high-speed pass over the airfield, followed by a reversal turn and buzz and break joining procedure to land.Īfter flying the sequence, Yak 1 (ZK-VVS) landed on sealed runway 29, and Yak 2 (ZK-YYY) landed on the grass area 29. Weather delays resulted in the USAF aircraft having to cancel, and organisers arranging for two civilian operated Yakovlev Yak-3M (Yak) aircraft to fill in for the USAF aircraft in the opening sequence. The opening sequence of the 2018 Warbirds over Wanaka (WOW) air show was planned to feature aircraft from the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) and United States Air Force (USAF). Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities ![]()
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