Two separate crashes hours apart have marred this year’s EAA AirVenture, an aviation enthusiast gathering and airshow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The crashes left four people dead and two injured. The aircraft in the incidents weren’t participating in the airshow but were owned by event attendees. The first incident involved a single-engine plane crashing into Lake Winnebago, then a helicopter and gyrocopter colliding in mid-air at Wittman Regional Airport.
ABC News reported that a North American T-6 Texan crashed around 9 a.m. local time. The World War II-era aircraft crashed into Lake Winnebago shortly after taking off from Wittman Regional Airport, the EAA AirVenture’s host facility. The two people onboard the T-6 were killed. The Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office stated that several agencies responded to the crash, and the U.S. Coast Guard recovered the bodies of the people killed. The next crash would happen three and a half hours later.