Despite What Appeared To Be A Decent Ditching Effort, An Outstanding Pilot Was Lost
The airshow community has suffered its second tragedy in nearly as many weeks. Long-time warbird pilot and industry good-guy, Bill Gordon was lost after the American Airpower Museum P-47 he was flying suffered some manner of propulsion failure and ditched in the Hudson River... not far from the scene of the US Air ditching a few years back, in 2009. Gordon, seen to be attempting to extricate himself from the rapidly sinking Thunderbolt, was later found still entrapped in the cockpit when the airframe was raised several hours later.
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