TURKEY, TX — A small plane in Texas was dropping pink water for a gender reveal party when it “got too slow” and crashed, the latest in a string of incidents caused by over-the-top gender reveal parties.
The findings came in a preliminary report released by the National Transportation Safety Board this week. The plane crashed near the small North Texas town of Turkey in September, injuring one person who had to be hospitalized, according to a news report from the time of the crash.
According to the federal report, the plane’s pilot was flying at a low altitude when he dumped some 350 gallons of pink water for the party.
That’s when the plane slowed down, stalled and crashed upside-down, the report says.
The pilot told investigators there were no mechanical failures or malfunctions with the plane prior to the crash that would have stopped it from flying normally.
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In late October, a piece of flying debris from an explosion killed a 56-year-old Iowa woman at a gender-reveal party. Pamela Kreimeyer, who was standing about 45 feet from the device with four other family members, died instantly when she was struck in her head, the local sheriff said.
Other gender-reveal parties have similarly gone awry. In 2017, U.S. Border Patrol agent accidentally sparked a wildfire with a gender-reveal explosion that burned about 47,000 acres and caused $8.2 million in damage. The agent pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation for causing a fire without a permit.
Last year in Australia, a car rigged to belch blue smoke in a gender reveal burst into flames. The driver escaped, but was convicted of dangerous operation of a car.
Beth Dalbey contributed to this report.