TOPEKA (KSNT) – The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a final investigation report on a deadly airplane crash that happened in Topeka in 2022. At 11:53 a.m. on July 16, 2022, witnesses saw Steven D. Stucky’s airplane depart the runway and perform various aerobatic maneuvers. Toxicological tests detected levels of ethanol in Stucky’s system. […]
audience. more important the distance the the airplanes are flying relative to the crowd. you won t see energy directed towards the crowd if the crowd is over here, you re not going to see the airplane doing an aerobatic maneuver towards the crowd. all that energy has to be directed parallel to the ground with the scatter pattern. it if comes apart in the air, none will head towards the crowd. but in europe the laws are not as strict which might have led to tragic results like ramstien. and in 2002 a crash at an air show in ukraine that killed 77 people. in that case the plane flew too low, crashed on the runway and skidded into the stands. the pilots who were alive were found guilty of negligence.