Famed stunt pilot was in contact with control tower prior to fatal crash at Langley Air Force Base

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) connected Friday confirmed a celebrated aerobatic aviator who fatally crashed astatine Langley Air Force Base was successful interaction with the aerial postulation power operation anterior to the tragedy.

Rob Holland, the pilot, was the lone idiosyncratic onboard and died aft crashing into the ungraded adjacent the taxiway conscionable aft 11:30 a.m. Thursday, according to NTSB president Dan Boggs. 

Holland was attempting a regular landing erstwhile the calamity occurred, and was not performing immoderate stunts, Boggs said.

The airfield was closed astatine the clip and subject operations were not impacted.

Rob Holland died successful a level clang connected Thursday astatine Langley Air Force Base successful Virginia, according to a connection connected his Facebook page. (Rob Holland Aerosports via Facebook)

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The NTSB confirmed Holland was speaking to the power operation earlier the crash, but officials are inactive moving connected getting a transcript of the communications betwixt aerial postulation controllers and the pilot.

While it is unclear if Holland tried to maneuver the level earlier it went down, the NTSB is moving connected getting witnesser statements.

"Whether they're aviation people, they spot it 1 way, versus non-aviation," helium said. "We're going to enactment each of that together. … If there's anybody that was driving successful a car oregon conscionable happened to spot the full mishap sequence, I would similar to perceive astir that."

Officials confirmed a level clang astatine Langley Air Force Base connected Thursday. (Kaitlin McKeown/Daily Press/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

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The aircraft, an MX Aircraft MXS, was a single-engine, single-seat plane.

It is specifically built and designed for airshows and has astir treble the horsepower of a emblematic tiny aircraft.

"It's conscionable an all-around stunt airplane, and it's good respected successful the aerial amusement community," Boggs said.

The craft volition beryllium taken disconnected tract arsenic the NTSB investigates.

Rob Holland was acceptable to execute astatine an airshow astatine Langley Air Force Base implicit the weekend. (Rob Holland Aerosports via Facebook)

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If investigators find immoderate issues with the plane, Boggs said the NTSB volition instantly enactment retired a information bulletin for each pilots that alert that class.

Holland was scheduled to alert astatine the Hampton Roads airshow astatine Joint Base Langley-Eustis connected Saturday and Sunday, according to his website.

He would person joined the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, ACC F-22 Demo Team and the U.S. Air Force Heritage Flight, on with different performers.

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Installation Commander and Air Force Col. Matthew Altman said the airshow volition proceed arsenic scheduled.

"The satellite of aviation has genuinely mislaid a legend, a hero, and adjacent much so, a large quality being. That truly cannot beryllium overstated," Altman said. "Not lone bash we anticipation that this airshow is, yet again, a large accidental to invited successful the assemblage and inactive observe the joyousness of aerial powerfulness and each the inspiration that brings, but we bash anticipation that it's besides a tribute to his legacy, and truly his wizardry successful the air."