It was in Plainview Texas. I was the reporter who flew with Wes to do a feature story on him. I was 22 years old and I had a young videographer who flew with me It's our footage that aired on NBC.

Simply in lameness terms- he over-stressed an aircraft and the wings came off. I was there. I have a picture of him still in the plane after the crash. To this day, "he was an idiot, not a pilot."

I was there. This took place in Plainview, Texas in 1983 at an airshow. The plane is an Italian made personal aircraft, not rated for acrobatics. The pilot performed a loop and leveled off and was attempting to perform a second loop. The speed combined with the load induced by pulling back on the yoke, exceeded the load rating of the plane many times over. The same result would occur on just about any personal aircraft if the speed and load limits are repeatedly grossly exceeded. It was an awful thing to witness. Yes, the announcer was the pilots wife. The plane landed just a few feet from our vehicle. No explosion, just a low thud that you could feel in the ground. This was a very avoidable condition. Pilot training 101.....what not to do!

It was Japan and the announcer was the wife of the pilot. Very very sad to see this type of idiocy is too common.

The pilot was my father Wes Winter who performemed many shows previously flying a Pitts Special in the same airshow doing the 3 ribbon pickup. Wow, what an awesome stunt. I will never forget you. RIP

I remember this I was there but 9-11 is just a bad day to fly for real not joking. Sorry if i'm rude or disrespectful by saying that. God bless the USA

He was 27 knots past the Vne and spike-loaded the wings at 8.3 Gs. The plane was not rated for this kind of flight. You can hear his wife cry out "I still need you..." as he falls out of the sky. Sickening.

You can clearly hear the Japanese commentator saying the event is taking place in Texas.

I thought this crash happened in Japan or something, not the US? Also, I've seen other videos that mention the pilot's wife was the announcer when he crashed.

that sucks for the pilot man.i know it was a an airshow but he should have relaxed on pushing his plane that hard.