[NSRCA-discussion] Don't know if any have seen or heard of this accident...

[rcaerobob at cox.net]

There's a thread on the RC Universe "Jet Forum" on this, includes link to an amatuer video of the crash that ended up on the TV News in Hungary. Definitely a bad situation, to understate it. Apparently pilot had "interference" (loss of control) - clearly visible in the video that there was no throttle, elevator, or aileron control coming out of a steeply-banked turn toward the crowd. Goes in probably 70-80* bank.
The thread on RCU quotes "someone" that the pilot was arrested immediately.
Ugly. And reminds us of the risks, and how important it is for us to do everything we can to mitigate them.

---- "White wrote:
>An article from Aero-News.net
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>Two Killed In Accident At Hungarian Model Aircraft Show
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>Mon, 15 May '06
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>Plane Goes Into Crowd
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><http://www.aero-news.net#d#d> <http://www.aero-news.net/#d#d>
><http://www.aero-news.net#d#d> A married couple attending an
>international model aircraft demonstration in southern Hungary Saturday
>were killed when one of the planes, a model Pitts biplane, suddenly
>crashed into the crowd.
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>Local news agency MTI reports the two were watching the show in
>Ocseny, a town about 90 miles south of the capital of Budapest.
>Emergency officials told MTI the couple was from the nearby city of
>Szekszard. Four others injured in the accident were taken to a hospital
>there.
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>It was the first time anyone in Hungary had been killed at a
>model airplane show, one of the show's organizers stated.
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>Chairman of the Hungarian Modelling Federation Andor Harmath
>told MTI he assumed the aircraft -- which was being controlled by who
>MTI described as an "experienced German operator," according to the
>Associated Press -- experienced interference in the signal between its
>controller and the receiver on the plane.
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>
>

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Bob Pastorello, El Reno, OK, USA
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