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January 10, 2004

'This Was Gonna Be A Great Year For Us…and This Happens'

"Trojan Phlyers" Grounded By Hicks Crash An out-of-control Piper Apache went down at Hicks Field, Friday... with two historic casualties... though all the HUMANS survived. You'll have the official FAA details of the crash of the Piper Apache at Hicks Airport in Fort Worth on Friday afternoon, shortly, but the aircraft-realted cost of the accident will be huge. The Trojan Phlyers T-28 demonstration team lost two of their three aircraft over the course of a few seconds, when an engine-out Apache took them out on the way to a pretty hefty impact (which the occupants, surprisingly, survived). One Trojan lost the vertical stabilizer, the other lost the entire tail, from just aft of the wing. “Initial damage estimates show one aircraft with moderate da

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