Aircraft touch, 10 killed
NZPA-AP Edmonton Ten crewmen died when two transport planes flying in low formation touched wings and crashed in flames during a Royal Canadian Air Force anniversary celebration, near Edmonton. Colonel Peter Detracey, commander of Canadian Forces Base Namao, said there were no known survivors.
The two Hercules C-130 cargo planes were among three planes from the base flying at about 509 metres on Saturday. Colonel Detracey said one
of the dead was an American Air Force exchange pilot. The others were Canadian. He described the airmen as “very experienced.”
Witnesses said the two planes touched wings and plunged into a warehouse near a fuel dump in the centre of the air base.
Colonel Detracey said the weather was clear. The crash was the second tragedy at the base in less than three years. In November, 1982, seven men, including an American exchange officer, died when a Hercules C-130 crashed during a training mission.
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