Thrush crashed

On Monday evening, July 8 2002, an accident happened with Ben's Thrush Commander. Happily flying in very good circumstances, all of a sudden the plane did not react to controll inputs. It then turned nose down from about 20 meter (60 feet). Luckely Ben was setting up for a sprayrun at low altitude, so the powersetting was only 20%. There was serious damage to the plane. Investigation afterwards showed that most likely the battery either was not properly loaded or simply failed. We did not have a camera present at the crash site, so the photo are made at home. And now, we can add this plane to the list of projects...