During a flight conducted to announce the sex of a baby at a gender reveal party in Sinaloa, Mexico, a technical failure caused the plane to crash and the pilot to die.
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A video of the accident, which happened in early September last year, shows the plane flying over the party location and releasing pink powder to announce that the woman was pregnant with a girl.
However, a technical failure in the aircraft’s wing caused the pilot to lose control. According to the Mexican news outlet Línea Directa, the pilot Luis Ángel, 32 years old, was taken to the hospital but did not survive his injuries.
The plane used for the gender reveal is a Piper PA-25-235 Pawnee, an agricultural aircraft that has not been manufactured since 1981. The Aviation Safety Network reported that the cause of the crash was a failure in the left wing caused by “an emergency release of water (dyed pink)”.
Pilot killed after his Piper PA-25 left wing failed at a gender reveal party in the town of San Pedro, Mexico. pic.twitter.com/6JILK7fsGm
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