Chandy Clanton -- Pilot crashes plane while practicing stunts
Clanton's Edge 540 (AP).Chandy Clanton, a 36-year-old pilot and banking executive, died yesterday when her plane crashed while practicing a stunt for an airshow in northwest Missouri.
Clanton, a three time member of the United States Unlimited Aerobatic team, was considered an accomplished pilot who had been flying since she was a teenager.
The cause of the crash is still to be determined.
KOLNKGIN reported:
Chandy's father and brother said this will be a hard time, but also a time of remembering the good things about Chandy. Both friends and family called her a competitive tri-athlete, talented pilot and a good mother to her two young sons. Although taken before her time, Chandy died doing something she loved.
The father-daughter bond runs deep for Harry Barr, he taught his daughter Chandy to fly.
"She would watch her brother fly, go places, pick up his girlfriend, have fun, go places and she kind of picked up on that and said, 'OK, my turn,"' said Chandy's father Harry Barr.
After picking up flying toward the end of high school, Chandy would go on to fly iconic planes like the DC-3 and the Learjet. But it was her stunt plane she loved most.
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