Vintage Crash in Chandler
Pictured: North American P-51D Mustang; N514NH / 4484850/FF-850 (cn 124-44706) Former Apollo astronaut Frank Borman own this Mustang in the ’90s. Borman registered it as N15FS in August 1995 and named it Su Su. In it’s history this aircarft has carried the registrations N151TH, N850AH, N151BF, N151FS. Now it belongs to Hirani Oil in Chandler Arizona.
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net
Contact photographer Dave Budd – Photorecon
What: (Hirani Oil Arizona) single-engine P-51D Mustang
Where: Stellar Airpark in Chandler
When: Thu Mar 11 1:20 p.m.
Who: pilot Nazzi Hirani
Why: On an attempt to land, the World War II-era plane appeared to be coming in to land too fast, hit a brick retaining wall, then flipped into the hanger, setting it afire and killing the pilot.
* Although the Mustang was built by North American Aviation, it is the precursor of the Piper.