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Hydroplane Crash – Miss Thriftway

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Unlimited Hydroplane “Miss Thriftway” loses rudder control and crashes into a Coastguard boat.

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  1. SunnyDaySam on May 28th, 2009 9:54 pm

    Bill Muncey went on to drive for many years after this crash – He was killed in a crash in Acapulco Mexico. I saw a clip of this from an angle behind the hydro and Bill bailed out about 1 second before impact with the CG boat.

  2. zydecoguy on June 1st, 2009 7:16 am

    I was viewing this from above the north turn from my house and saw it happen. Even using binoculars you couldn’t really see what was going on. We ran for the TV’s and watched both boats sink live on TV just like you saw it… and, yes, that is what TV looked like then. Almost nothing was taped or filmed for showing later. 95% of everything was live.

  3. trumpete53 on June 4th, 2009 1:04 pm

    Hey, that’s what tv looked like in 1958!

  4. steampunkgrrl on June 5th, 2009 12:29 am

    Thanks so much for posting this! I had heard about the incident, but had no idea that there was still video of it around!

    Mill Muncy won many races after this crash, so I know that he, at least, survived it.

  5. mbspeed on June 5th, 2009 10:36 pm

    Try contacting the folks at the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum in Kent, WA.

  6. tweety208 on June 8th, 2009 11:29 am

    i am looking for footage of a boat called miss canadiana or miss super test. My uncle art asbury was the driver.

  7. sxcrxtxgxnt on June 8th, 2009 10:47 pm

    ok that wasn’t a coast guard cutter… just a little cg patrol boat.

  8. justsaygary on June 10th, 2009 12:05 am

    By the way, this was the ONLY peace-time sinking of a US Coast Guard vessel!!

  9. TechState on June 10th, 2009 6:40 pm

    er… shame it’s a video of a bad tv screen.

  10. Freenbean on June 13th, 2009 7:38 pm

    Wouldn’t you have liked to have overheard the phone call to Coast Guard HQ in DC?

  11. boatkitten on June 14th, 2009 2:10 am

    He didn’t die in this wreck. He died in the 1980′s (82 I think?) in a different one-boat crash in Mexico.

  12. josephdupont on June 15th, 2009 11:54 pm

    Bill Muncey was a cool guy I’m sorry he died way too early..

  13. DeejaRandom on June 16th, 2009 10:39 pm

    Hmmm did any one die? reply straight to me please !!

  14. teamdeadly on June 19th, 2009 7:02 am

    Muncy was the first person since…like…1812 to single-handedly sink a Coast Guard cutter. Thanks for the clip!

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