Plane Crash at Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, CA May 4, 2014 Video Part 2 HD

Eyewitness Account on the Horrifying Plane Crash By Gabriel Ortigoza FAIRFIELD, CA - A veteran pilot died Sunday when his plane crash during the Thunder over Solano Air Show at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California. It was windy afternoon, about 1400, of May 4th when the pilot of Stearman biplane performing aerial acrobat called "Cutting the Ribbon" in an upside-down maneuver failed to recover and crashed at the runway. The plane skidded from the point of impact, about 100 yards in front of this writer, until it finally stopped at the opposite side of the tarmac. A white smoke initially was seen coming out from the plane then it turned into a black heavy one and suddenly a huge fire engulfed a 1944 Stearman biplane; Stearman is also called Boeing Stearman or Kaydet. The Air Show announcer gave instruction to an estimated one hundred thousand spectators to "Stand still where you are. Do not move. Do not move" to give way to the responders. It took about four to five precious minutes before the first fire truck arrived at the scene and started to spray foam while moving towards the burning plane; the truck initially was parked a little far from the scene that its fired foam could not reach the plane and the driver has to aggressively move the truck closer to effectively reach the inferno. Couple of fire trucks arrived the scene immediately thereafter the first one and successfully put the fire off. (See my uploaded videos at YouTube: Plane Crash at Travis AFB Part 1 and Part 2). The air show announcer made a public appeal to whoever has the video of the crash to contact the base personnel at the Command Center to give their names and contact numbers to help with the investigation in which this writer did. There was a sort of confusion in the area when the announcer instructed the people to go to their cars immediately but withdrew his statement few seconds thereafter and instead advised the crowd to stay where we were until further announcement. Thunderbirds, the United States Air Force Demonstration Squadron, were scheduled to perform at 3 pm but the leadership decided to cancel the rest of the air show to give way for the investigation and directed the people to leave the area; it took me and my family three hours to get out of the base due to massive side-to-side bumper-to-bumper traffic congestion. Later at the TV news, Col. David Mott of Travis AFB identified the pilot as Eddie Andreini, 77, of Half Moon Bay, CA. Andreini has been flying for 30 years and has a record of 1,000 air show performances around the world, according to the report. The wind velocity that day was raging from 10 to 20 knots, Col. Mott added. Eddie is a big loss to the Air Show family. The community hope the investigation being conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and other related agencies will point to the cause or causes of this tragic accident and expect NTSB to come up with the best course or courses of a