The death of a talented pilot and the end of an historic aircraft
A few days ago, there was a tragic accident at an air display in Cheb in the Czech Republic. The pilot was Petr Paces who was a very experienced MiG 21 fighter pilot and captain of the Boeing 737 airliner.
Nothing is more important that the death of this man, but I have to record that the aircraft that he was flying was a World War Two Hawker Hurricane painted in the colour scheme of the aircraft flown in 1942 by the Czech RAF pilot Karel Kuttelwascher who was the father of my ex-wife.
You can read more about Karel Kuttelwascher here. You can read more about the Hawker Hurricane here. And you can see below a video of the aircraft which crashed at Cheb being flown by Petr Paces the day before his death.