Jay Honeck wrote:
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photoga...planecrash.wmv

This one was just sent to me without any background info. It shows a
beautiful P-38 Lightning, painted in D-Day invasion stripes, doing
barrel rolls right into the ground at airshow center.

Judging by the hair styles, I'm guessing this happened in the 1980s?
There are a fair number of parked warbirds, but also some GA planes...

Was it pilot error, or was there a mechanical failure? Where did this
happen? Can anyone point to the NTSB report?

Probably this one:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1367462.stm
14 July 1996: Decorated former RAF squadron leader and Britannia Airways
pilot Michael "Hoof" Proudfoot dies as his Lockheed P38 Lightning
cartwheels and bursts into flames.

The 54-year-old had been on a low-level flypast in the vintage US World
War Two plane in front of 13,000 people at the Imperial War Museum in
Duxford, Cambridgeshire.


http://www.airliners.net/open.file/895693/L/
Lockheed P-38J Lightning
NX3145 / 67543 Unfortunately lost in a crash at Duxford 16 July 1996


- J.O.-