Posted on 09/16/2011 7:05:20 PM PDT by nuconvert
DEVELOPING: RENO, Nev. -- An airplane crashed Friday into a crowd attending an air race here, injuring dozens in what one event official described as a "mass-casualty situation."
A medical official later said more than 75 people had been injured, including 25 critically. There was no official word on deaths, though one report put the toll as high as 12 and the crash near the grandstands left a horrific scene of bodies and wreckage.
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Yes she is. I checked that out. Her heart is bruised but she and her crew are okay physically.
Sorry about double post, slow net.
It's a tragedy, and a sad day for aviation.
That said, I heard Sean Hannity wondering why pilots were allowed to do this, and implying that it should not continue. (Hannity just went from "Great American" to "Ignorant Creep" in my book. There is no coming back from "ignorant creep".)
I've been to the Reno Air Races many times (last year being most recent.)
It's a RACE. Crashes happen (unfortunately) in racing.
After feeling sorrow for those lost, and some anxiousness for those injured, my thoughts go to how some ninneys will try to take the Reno Races away (or move the grandstands to an unwatchable distance); and, how some lawyers will consider this good news, and try to organize the bereaving and injured into a lawsuit class.
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Leeward was a master pilot and his plane was well maintained. There is always some risk when you are up in the air and going fast. I hope air races and air shows are not banned by the no fun for humans crowd as that’s not the world I’d enjoy living in. Present FAA rules on these work reasonably well and a bad accident should not be used to end our enjoyment of flying & watching air shows.
YouTube has removed it.
Would you add my nae to your list?
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Very sad. Saying prayers.
There is another link to the video if you search “Reno air crash”. Definitely not for the faint of heart (should probably have an 18+ restriction). So horrible...
So far at least four videos have been aired.
You-boob may have pulled it, but it’s being aired every couple of minutes on broadcast TV.
Prayers for full recovery of the injured.
I was at the races today and sit in the box seats about 40 -50 yards from where the plane went in. We dodged shrapnel and weren’t hit. A guy two boxes down was being given CPR. My take on the accident is this: Galloping Ghost was rounding pylon eight and appeared to get hit by wake turbulence which caused him to roll up off the course and upside down.
He crossed the deadline, heard the engine surge twice and he was on a downward trajectory. At first I thought he was going in behind the grandstands but he rolled it back to the airfield. For a moment I was looking right down his spinner.
We thought he was going to land on us but we got lucky. There was no explosion. We dodged some flying shrapnel and stuff that was rolling down the aisle
If there was mechanical problems it picked the worst time to happen.
I met Jimmy many times and I feel like I have lost a friend. It’s devastating
Not a p-51, Galloping Ghost was a custom made AC.The pattern used for the custom build looked like a p-51 to some but it was a custom aircraft, patterned after what was known as the “Cleveland Racer.”
The reporting on this is in gross error.It had no belly scoop, for cooling, the tail section is no where like a P-51.The V-12 engine put out twice as much power as the P-51 engine. A p-51 air frame would tear apart trying to do what the Gallping Ghost could do in terms of performance.
YouTube pulled the vid, its been censored.
I was stationed in Frankfurt, Germany back in 1988-89, when the jets crashed into the crowd at the US Air Force base over there, I forget which one at the moment, and many were killed. A soldier who lived across the street from me was one that was killed. He and his family went down there to the air show. He was the only one in his family to die. I think like 80 or more were killed that day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramstein_airshow_disaster
Did it crash into the crowds or just in front with the shrapnel causing the casualties? In the video it look like it was just in front.
I’m quoting you over here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2779636/posts?page=198
Major Plane Crash at Reno Air Races Many dead...
It hit in the front row of box seats near the start finish line.. Shapnel for the most part went outward away from the crowd although we were being showered with smaller chunks 100+ feet away.
I guess the good thing was this was on a Friday. Most of the boxes were only about 30 percent filled. On Sunday this would have been much worse
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