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The father of the jet engine-powered semitruck driver who died during a performance at a southwestern Michigan air show says the truck burst into flames after a blown tire ruptured the fuel tank
BATTLE CREEK, MI (KFGO KVRR)- Fargo AirSho is extending its deepest sympathies to the family of Chris Darnell and the entire Shockwave Jet Truck &.
which can top more than 350 miles per hour, emerging on the other side of the inferno before rolling several times. what went through your mind as you saw the truck rolling? fear for him. just seeing it rolling, knowing that he s going over 300 miles per hour, you just can t imagine somebody would walk away from that reporter: elizabeth matthews was in the crowd with her two kids a lot of people gasped some people started praying for him. reporter: darnell had been driving trucks for two decades and had just celebrated his 40th birthday his family, devastated we are so sad, darnell s father shared in a facebook post he was so well loved by everyone who knew him. chris so loved the air show business. he was living the dream. it is a little comforting to know that, you know, he was doing what he loved when it happened reporter: the show going on today in darnell s honor with a tribute in the sky to