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2008/11/23

Kit Plane Crash Kills Sprint Car Driver


What: two-seater kit-built aircraft known as a VANS RV7 en route from from Darwin to Jindare Station
Where: Jindare Station airstrip about 40 kilometres south-west of Pine Creek
When: 1:30pm
Who: Territory sprintcar driver Mark Grosvenor was one of two people killed in the crash
Why: Under investigation

2 comments:

The Cranky ED said...

George, if you want to include a type specific aircraft picture with your postings (which would be really helpful to those who are not pilots or aviation safety researchers), you might try www.airliners.net. The reason I bring this up is that the picture you have for this crash is not even close to the kit plane that was involved in this incident. I imagine you don't wish to confuse anyone further at the distinction between a homebuilt kit aircraft and an ultralight (which is what was pictured).

Anonymous said...

Yes, it is true, we admit we have a very small pool of pictures that we use. In the meantime, we have corrected the picture (and hope this is the correct one.) Airliners.net sounds like a good resource--we will find out if this is an option for us from the powers that be.