Blue Angels cancel Annapolis air show over performance error

Flyover at Naval Academy graduation undetermined

The Blue Angels, the Navy's flight demonstration squadron, abruptly canceled its practice demonstration and air show scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday in Annapolis, but officials said the group's planes could still fly at Friday's U.S. Naval Academy graduation ceremony.

In a statement, the Pensacola, Fla.-based Blue Angels said it is in a "safety stand-down" after an error during a maneuver during a performance on Sunday at the Lynchburg Regional Air Show in Virginia.
A spokesman said planes were doing a "barrel-roll split" in which planes turn 360 degrees and then break apart. The spokesman, Petty Officer Russell Tafuri, would not say how low to the ground the planes got, but that the planes flew outside their preset safety parameters.
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