Incidents & Accidents
On September 11, 1983, a sales representative was flying a P.68C at an airshow in Plainview, Texas. The pilot performed high-speed, high-G maneuvers in excess of the aircraft’s design parameters and, during one such maneuver, the wings separated from the rest of the aircraft just outboard of the engine nacelles. The pilot was killed.
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