EAA AirVenture officials do what they can to make their event safe, thencross their fingers and pray for luck. That luck ran low Thursday afternoon asthe warbirds were taking to the air for the daily airshow. As a formation ofBearcats and Corsairs started their takeoff roll, something went terribly wrong.Thousands of airshow fans watched in horror as one of the F-4U Corsairs, pilotedby 56-year-old Laird Doctor of Dallas, Texas, collided with a Bearcat fighterflown by Howard Pardue, of Breckinridge, Texas.
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