The car crashed after speeding off the runway at the Buena Vista Regional Airport Friday, becoming airborne and sailing across a ravine, the Denver Post reported.
“They were just test driving this car,” Chaffee County Sheriff John Spezze told the paper. “They went a little too fast. I don't want to surmise. … They probably got to the end of the runway and, at that speed, didn't realize they were there so fast. And they lost control. It was just too high a speed and they got to the end of the runway.”
Lynd Fitzgerald, 71, of Colorado Springs, and Roger Lichtenberger, 76, of San Marcos, Calif., were pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2017/09/11/two-killed-during-dodge-challenger-hellcat-test-drive-on-airport-runway.html
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/09/10/friends-speed-testing-sports-car-runway-killed/
http://moparconnectionmagazine.com/two-dead-after-high-speed-run-in-2016-dodge-challenger-hellcat-goes-bad/
Died with style.
ReplyDeleteLike Sylvester Roper, who died with his boots on in 1898, going flat out on a steam powered motorcycle he had built himself.
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