List of Air Show Accidents and Incidents - 2012

2012

• September 29 - An AS/SA 202 Bravo piloted by Nurman Lubis and Tonny Haryono, owned by the Indonesian Aerosport Federation, crashed because the plane appeared to be flying too low during its aerobatic routine and spun "out of control" before it hit the structure at the Bandung Air Show at the Husein Sastranegara International Airport in. Both pilots died.
• September 11 - A highly modified Hawker Sea Fury, nicknamed "Furias," piloted by Matt Jackson made a hard emergency landing when the right landing gear collapsed and veered off the runway at the 2012 National Championship Air Races and Air Show in Reno, Nevada. The pilot was uninjured.
• September 7 - Robert "Bob" Odegaard died while flying his Goodyear F2G "Super" Corsair 2G-1 Corsair, better known as "Race 74" while practicing for the weekend's Wings & Wheels Airshow at the Barnes County Municipal Airport in
• September 1 - Glenn Smith, a member of the HopperFlight Team died while executing a crossover break maneuver when his Aero L-39C Albatros failed to pull out of a 45-degree bank and crashed when flying in formation at the
• August 12 - Bob Carlton's Super Salto Jet Sailplane received damage at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh airshow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin while it was parked at the Kermit Weeks Hangar. Apparently a truck backed into the sailplane. It was transported back to New Mexico for repairs.
• August 4 - Kent Pietsch crashed his Jelly Belly 1942 Interstate Cadet while performing his comedy routine at the Wetaskiwin Air Show in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada. The wing hit the wheat field, ripped the wing off and spun around while he was landing. Kent was taken to the hospital in stable condition. He has since been released from the hospital and plans on continuing flying in air shows once he repairs his airplane. He has since returned to the airshow circuit.
• July 26 - Greg Koontz had an interesting incident to his American Champion Decathlon in which his seat tubing separated at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh airshow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. It happened when he let the nose drop a bit with a slow roll while building up to 150 knots and then leveled out before pulling 4 positive Gs to start a loop that would have had a snap off the top. The seat failed as he pitched up and through 45 degrees pitch positive.
• July 1 - Trevor Roche died at the Shuttleworth Military Pageant Airshow in Bedfordshire, when the 1923
• June 30 - Gianfranco Cicogna-Mozzoni died at the Klerksdorp Air Show in South Africa when his Aero L-39 Albatros got into the wake turbulence of the lead aircraft and suffered a compressor stall, followed by a high-speed wing stall, before impacting the ground at a 50 degree angle. The plane exploded on impact.
• June 15 - A Christen Eagle piloted by Ryland "Buck" Roetman crashed while performing a series of outside snap rolls, when the engine lost oil pressure during a preview for the Legacy Airshow in Rexburg, Idaho. The pilot guided the airplane onto an adjacent golf course where it skidded and hit a tree. The pilot suffered a sprained ankle; the aircraft was destroyed.
• June 3 - A Fairey Firefly AS.6 WB518 suffered a landing gear collapse on runway 27R at the Wings over Gillespie airshow in El Cajon, California. The pilot was uninjured.
• April 28 - Martino Wirth died at the Flugplatz Alkersleben airshow in Erfurt, Germany while flying his 1950's era Zlín T Trenér 6 in a formation flight.