National air show performer Ian Groom

Edited by James E. Swickard June 01, 2004
National air show performer Ian Groom, 58, died on his birthday April 30 in the widely televised crash of his Russian-built Sukhoi 31 aerobatic aircraft during practice for the Air and Sea Show in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He failed to recover from a series of flat spins. ``It was obvious there was a...

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