Gender Reveal Stunt Causes Plane Crash

Nothing says 'let's welcome our new child in to the world' quite like a light aircraft smashing into the ground.

One couple in Texas thought they'd think outside of the box a bit when it came to the fairly new tradition of the 'gender reveal' - spoiler: it went terribly wrong.

Raj Horan, the 49-year-old pilot of the plane, was flying the aircraft at very low altitude. The original plan was to drop 350 gallons of pink dyed water by the gender reveal party.

But the weight of the water and the low altitude ccaused the plane to smash into the ground after it stalled mid-flight. It apparently spiralled towards the ground before flipping over. The stunt was meant to be a surprise the couple's friends and family - which it sounds like it probably still was.

The couple, who weren't named, were revealing to the party that they were having a baby girl, who will hopeuflly love the colour pink - but instead they were left with a smashed up plane, the two people on board luckuly only suffered minor injuries.

An National Transportation Safety Board inspector also remarked that the aircraft wasn't designed to carry two people, and was a single seat plane.

The growing popularity of the 'gender reveal party' and people's creativity towards them has meant that we're seeing more occasions of them going horribly wrong.

One party last year did just that and ended up causing a massive 47,000-acre wildfire that cost $8 million (£6.2m) to deal with.

The US Forest Service has now released footage from the scene. The fire was started after happy, expectant dad Dennis Dickey and his wife gathered some pals and headed to the Coronado National Forest, Arizona, to find out the gender of their unborn baby.

As part of their reveal celebrations, Dickey was to shoot at a target that was filled with powder, which would either burst and show blue (for a boy) or pink (for a girl) - sounds straightforward enough, doesn't it? Except added to the powder was a substance called Tannerite, which is legal, but as we can all now see, is also very explosive.

As sparks flew from the target, the dry grass quickly caught aflame and before any knew what was happening, the whole area was alight.

The incident, which happened in April 2017, resulted in 800 firefighters being called as the fire burned for almost two weeks.

Topics: US News

Amelia Ward

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