de Havilland Venom Crash: RIP Marty Tibbetts

[n4gix]

I saw this posted yesterday at SOH:

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I found this news story, apparently it was a De Havilland Venom that crashed into a barn. The pilot is confirmed as having died upon impact and two farm workers were injured. Very sad news.

http://www.wbay.com/content/news/Pla...488762471.html

The pilot was Marty Tibbitts, president of the World Heritage Air Museum, which owns/operates quite an expansive collection of flying vintage jets. They were scheduled to be bringing the de-Havilland Venom and a Gloster Meteor to Oshkosh for this coming week, as part of the celebration of 100 years of the RAF. Absolutely tragic news.

This is a truly sad beginning to what is supposed to be a week of absolute delight.

[Kinetic2080]

Very sad, R.I.P.

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[188AHC]

This is terrible. So sorry Marty lost his life.

 

[Chris Crawford]

I think I saw that aircraft doing laps in the pattern around PTK the other week. Sad, indeed. RIP

[birdguy]

Not a good year for Oshkosh.

 

Noel