Trent's friend Nick crashed

[Av8r3400]

I've seen this before. The rescue crews need to get the fuel (wings) cut off and away from the cabin to do their work.

The "jaws" do this efficiently and quickly.


Thoughts and prayers to Nikk, his family and friends. He has a long road ahead...

[Tom Waid]

Best wishes for a speedy recovery. We're all thinking about you, Nikk.

[Rooster]

Thank you Jesus that you are going to be alright, Nikk!
We love your guys and girl's attitude to enjoying life and doing so with loads of gratitude!
I will continue to pray for your complete recovery and for you all to not be set back in your flying.
You guys are a testimony as to how one should enjoy the gifts that God has given us.
You are all making a difference!
Be strong and keep it up!


Reid
South Africa

[Rodney]

Truely lots of prayers for a complete recovery

Would it be appropriate for us as a Kitfox family to set up
some way to make donations to his family???

This is certainly a serious incident and I would like to help them out
but not sure where to send help to

Prayerfully
Rodney

[hamer]

Glad to see Nikk survived and is recovering. Best wishes to him.

Looking at the damage in the photos, makes me think wearing a flight helmet probably isn't a bad idea in these small airplanes.

[Esser]

I've been thinking about a helmet for a while and Nikk's accident has solidified this idea. I'm now in the market for one.

[colospace]

Yikes!! Prayers for your recovery Nikk.
Being real near the end of my build, I hope you at some point feel up to sharing what happened, but first things first. Get better!

[rdooley79]

I've been thinking about a helmet for a while and Nikk's accident has solidified this idea. I'm now in the market for one.

I was looking at this one. Pick the bill length you like. Plus it doesn't have a button on top to mess with your headset headband. Reasonably priced too.

https://goo.gl/icdjD5

[ColdFusion]

This recent highly publicized S7 kitfox crash in Reno puts everyone in a tough spot.

Thousands of aviators and every kitfox driver wants to know the details without appearing insensitive to the injured, or hurting the brand, or risk of putting the pre crash decisions and resulting actions of the pilots in a position of judgment.

The only reason this S7 kitfox crash is known world-wide is the close proximity to the high action, low flying, youtube sensation, water skiing bush plane pilot and category brand ambassador, Trent Palmer. Without Trent this would be just another silent kitfox crash, add Trent, and arm chair pilots everywhere chime in. Ironically, a group of outback flyers in Australia, about as far away from the crash site possible, seem to have a pretty interesting timeline and rescue photos on this crash, just google kitfox crash and look for the Aussie bush plane blog.

I would have expected the first mishap on team Palmer to be a low speed ground loop or a scraped wing tip from tire grabbing sand, mud or gravel, not a low energy event in extreme vfr above extreme flatness. Short of an in-flight structure break up, I could not imagine a better place to have an emergency then where that plane fell.

Good luck to the pilot. He is very lucky. Things could have been much worse, especially with leaking fuel.

[ken nougaret]

Does anyone have any additional information on Nikk and what went wrong? I dont do instagram or facebook etc.