
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, July 2, 1990                   TAG: 9007020065
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BUFFALO, N.Y.                                LENGTH: Short

THREE STUNT PILOTS DIE IN WEEKEND AIR SHOWS

A stunt pilot crashed a World War II-era plane into the Niagara River and died Sunday in the sixth fatal air show accident in the United States in five weeks.

The body of the pilot, Giff Foley, 43, was found in the AT-6 plane near the river's entrance to Lake Erie, officials said.

Foley lost control during a manuever before thousands of people attending a festival in Buffalo and across the river in Fort Erie, Ontario.

Also Sunday, a stunt pilot flying a vintage World War II plane was killed in Ottawa, Ontario. Harry Tope, 47, of Mount Pleasant, Mich., was completing the bottom end of a loop when the engine of his Mustang P-51 sputtered and he crashed.

A pilot crashed and died Saturday in Groton, Conn., while attempting a stunt takeoff of his 1942 Stearman biplane in an air show, state police said. - Associated Press

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