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Thousands watched in horror as a small plane crashed into the sea during an air show in the Dominican Republic on Sunday, killing both pilots.

Authorities are investigating the tragedy, but say pilot error may have been the cause, according to Dominican Today, an English-language newspaper based in the capital city of Santo Domingo.

The plane appeared to nose-dive into the Caribbean Sea after the pilots attempted a complex stunt. The accident was photographed by a stunned onlookers, who were approximately 500 yards away.


The Dominican air force pilots were identified as Eduardo Rafael Sanchez, 27, and 25-year-old Carlos Manuel Guerrero. The accident took place off the coast of Santo Domingo.

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"These are unfortunate, painful accidents that take place, although in this case there was a rapid response by Navy, firefighters and Air Force rescue personnel, who immediately arrived to rescue of the aircraft’s crew," the Dominican military said in a statement to diariolibre.com, a newspaper in the Dominican Republic.

The rest of the two-day “Air Show of the Caribbean," which began Saturday, was canceled.

http://www.diariolibre.com/dlenglish...te-causes.html
http://www.dr1.com/news.php
http://www.airforce-technology.com/p...iner-aircraft/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/worl...#ixzz2PwoY3TQM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...incidents#2013

P.S.: someone in the video screams: "¡AyAyAyAyAyAyAyAyAyyyyyyyyy!"

[Faline]

Damn Good footage

[Pyramid_Head]

Damn good pictures!

[kellyhound]

April 7 2013 Two crew members were killed after a plane crashed into the Caribbean Sea during an air show in the Dominican Republic.

The Chilean-made ENAER T-35 Pillan went down on Sunday some 500 meters south of the shore of Santo Domingo’s Malecon and, according to witnesses, sank in less than a minute after hitting the water.

The pilots killed in the accident were Second Lieutenants Rafael Eduardo Sanchez, 27, and Carlos Manuel Guerrero, 25.

John Vargas, an organizer of the air show, said that divers had already recovered the bodies from the sea.

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