DAVENPORT, IOWA (AP\/Staff) \u2013 Authorities say a North Texas-based pilot with Tyler connections was killed when his plane crashed during an air show in eastern Iowa. The Quad-City Times reported the death Glenn A. Smith of Frisco. Smith was CEO of the Warbird Educational Foundation that owned the Soviet-era jet he was flying. According to KETK, he was a life member of Tyler\u2019s Historic Aviation Memorial Museum and owned two rare MIG-17s, now on display in Tyler. The crash Saturday created a fireball when Smith\u2019s plane failed to pull out of a 45-degree bank and crashed into a field. No one else was hurt. Federal officials are investigating. Smith was part of the HopperFlight jet team that was performing at the Quad-City Air Show in Davenport. A squadron of planes flew over the crash site Sunday in the \u201cmissing man\u201d formation before the air show continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DAVENPORT, IOWA (AP\/Staff) \u2013 Authorities say a North Texas-based pilot with Tyler connections was killed when his plane crashed during an air show in eastern Iowa. The Quad-City Times reported the death Glenn A. Smith of Frisco. Smith was CEO of the Warbird Educational Foundation that owned the Soviet-era jet he was flying. According to … Continue reading Pilot with Tyler Ties Killed in Iowa Air Show Crash<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 14:25:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210682"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210809,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210682\/revisions\/210809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}