The driver of the highly modified semi-truck known as Shockwave was killed at an airshow in Battle Creek, Michigan, last weekend during a performance in which Chris Darnell raced aircraft flying down the runway above him. Shockwave is fitted with three vintage military turbojet engines and is said to be capable of speeds of up to 350 mph, though it wasn’t traveling that fast at the time of the crash. Even before Darnell passed behind a pyrotechnic wall of flame strategically situated to look from the audience’s point of view that the truck is traveling through the flames, there appeared to be trouble with the truck. After Shockwave emerged (from the viewer’s perspective) from behind the flames, it looked to be engulfed in flames itself, and went out of control.
