This image taken from video and provided by WABC/abc7NY.com, shows the wreckage of a stunt plane from the air of WABC TV’s NewsCopter7 as it flies near Stuart Air Force Base in New Windsor, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 28, 2015. A pilot was killed after his propeller-driven stunt plane crashed while he was practicing tricks for a weekend air show in New York’s Hudson Valley, state police said Friday. (WABC/abc7NY.com via AP)NEW WINDSOR, N.Y. – A pilot died when his propeller-driven stunt plane crashed while he was practicing tricks for a weekend air show in New York’s Hudson Valley, state police said Friday.
Trooper Steven Nevel said the accident happened around 2 p.m. Friday at Stewart International Airport in the Orange County town of New Windsor, where the New York Air Show is scheduled to take place this weekend.
The pilot was the only person in the plane. His name wasn’t immediately released.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane was a Giles G202 experimental aircraft owned by stunt pilot Andrew Wright of Austin, Texas. Wright took a local reporter for a preview flight earlier and was scheduled to perform at the show.
Benjamin Granucci, a photographer and editor for the website nycaviation.com, photographed the wreck as it happened.