1 killed when airplane crashes at Stellar Airpark in Chandler

[Matt Ottosen]

http://www.abc15.com/content/news/southeastvalley/chandler/story/FD-1-killed-after-plane-crashes-into-Chandler/Bs_-WdZOhEiHD0ZNdbm1AQ.cspx

"Su Su" is down.  

[Joe Copalman]

AZCentral claims the pilot survived:  http://www.azcentral.com/community/chandler/articles/2010/03/11/20100311airplane-crashes-chandler-stellar-airpark.html

[F-16_fixer]

Joe I think they are talking about the 2007 crash not todays 

[serendipifly]

The pilot that survived was in reference to the June 2007 crash.

[Matt Ottosen]

"Su Su" on a better day.

[serendipifly]

My thoughts are with the pilot today, and with Su-Su, the P-51D. It's so sad that a plane with so much history could be gone in the blink of an eye. My heart goes out to the people at Stellar Airpark for the rough day I am sure they are experiencing. RIP P-51 pilot.  

[David Loera]

my prayers are with the pilots family RIP

[Joe Copalman]

Gotchya.  The article did not state whether the person killed was a pilot - they made it sound like it could have been someone in the hangar.

[Jay Beckman]

So SU SU was based at Stellar?

Funny that I've never seen it around before today.  Thought I had a pretty good handle on what the more exotic birds were over there.

Someone on Fred Miranda mentioned that they thought the aquisition by the current owner was fairly recent (?)

[Joe Copalman]

I think he kept it hangared most of the time.  

[Matt Ottosen]

The East Valley Trib is reporting that the pilot was killed instantly, and the pilot was the plane's owner.

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/151739

[photorecon]

Nazzi was a good man,I am glad I got to meet him.I am a better man for knowing him. A little post I wrote about him  @ www.classicwarbirds.net

[David Loera]

great post, and story

[phantomphan1974]

We also have a photo tribute to Nazzi as well as the came to the Cable Airshow the past couple of years and was scheduled to be at an event in May to help raise funds for troops and was to be held at Torrance Airport....

See tribute at www.apsocal.com