Reno Accident Killed 9, The Probe Focuses On Some Whimsical
RENO, Nev. (AP) - The death toll rose to nine on Saturday in a plane crash in Reno's career researchers have determined that several spectators were killed in the impact that the 1940-plan model seemed a bit lost of its tail before reaching a missile into a crowded pavement.
A few moments earlier had thousands of their necks arched to the sky and saw the speed of the aircraft by a few hundred meters above the ground before someone noticed a strange gurgling sound of the engine from above. Seconds later P-51 Mustang called The Galloping Ghost struck strangely on the rise, danced and took an immediate tumble in a section of white VIP boxes.
The plane, piloted by a rider 74 years and veteran Hollywood stunt pilot, disintegrated in a ball of dust, dirt and bodies, as cries of "Oh my God!" spread through the crowd.
National Transportation Safety Board officials were at the scene Saturday to determine what caused Jimmy Leeward lose control of the aircraft, and they watched an amateur video clip appeared to show a small piece of the plane crash to the ground before crash. Witnesses who saw the pictures of the game, said he turned out to be a "trim tab" which helps drivers maintain control of the aircraft.
Reno police also GPS mapping system will help researchers to re-fight scene.
"Images and video appears to show a piece of the aircraft was endangered," spokesman Mark Rosenkind NTSB said at a news conference. "A party has been repaid. We have not identified or if the component from the aircraft ... We will focus on it. "
The researchers said the recovered part of the tail section, where the card is located.
A walk near the proposed site for journalists Saturday night showed wreckage scattered in a fan shape over a hectare around a crater about three feet deep and as much as eight feet in diameter. Based on the location of the crater, according to P-51 Mustang went straight down in the first rows of seats VIP lounge, or about 65 feet leading edge of the platform.
Yellow tape surrounded the scene and the seats of the spectators was evil.
Among the dead were the pilot and eight spectators. Authorities said 69 people were treated in hospitals, including 36 who were released and 31 who remain. Nine were in critical condition Saturday night.
Doctors who treated the wounded said that the worst cases they've ever seen, because a large number of people, including at least two children under 18 who are not among the critical issues.
These injuries included major head injury, trauma and facial injuries to members, including amputations, said Dr. Myron Gomes, chief trauma surgeon at the medical center renowned region.
"I've seen more patients, but never so many patients with this number of serious injuries," said Dr. Michael Mork head of the department of emergency Renown, who trained at Cook County General Hospital in Chicago.
"It was traumatic," he said.
Despite the large number of killed and wounded, witnesses and people familiar with the race say the toll could have been much worse had the plane crashed in the region of large crowd stands. The plane crashed in a section of boxes that were placed in front of the grandstand, where most people Sat
"It would have been much worse if the plane had beaten a few lines before," said Don Berliner, president of the Society of Historians and former Air Races Reno Air Races officer. "We could talk about hundreds of deaths."
Some credit cards driver to avoid the accident to be far more deadly by avoiding the section with forums up last minute, but it is impossible at this point to know his thoughts when he was confronted with a disaster and had only seconds to react.
One of the things the investigators said they look at is health Leeward, the pilot of 74 who friends say was healthy.
Witnesses described a horrific scene after the plane hit the public and sent a cloud of brown dust blown by the wind. When it cleared a few moments later, the bodies still scattered on the ground, some in groups, while others stumbled around bleeding and shocked.
"I saw the spinner, the wings, the canopy simply come straight at us. He hit just in front of us, probably 50 to 75 feet, "says Ryan Harris, of Round Mountain, Nevada" The next thing I saw was a wall of debris rising to the air. It I have sprayed with. In the wall of debris, I noticed that there were pieces of flesh. "
Ambulances rushed to the scene, and officials have said that the fans have done a great job and looking bad. Just that morning, 25 paramedics at the Air Show, had drilled a large scale emergency such as this.
"We are going through what we do in the event of an incident," said Ken Romero, director of the Emergency Services Authority region. "We went through how to react when the bus multi-victim incidents and what is on the bus (as equipment), how to set up free zones and how to sort."
Crash was the first time the public had been killed since the race began 47 years ago in Reno Twenty pilots, including the Leeward died at the time, race officials said.
And 'the only of its kind in the United States Air Race. Air is an annual event for flying wing-to-wing as low as 50 feet off the ground, sometimes at speeds exceeding 500 mph. Pilots follow an oval path around pylons, with distances and speeds depending on the class of air.
Disaster was renewed calls on the organizers of the race to take into account the end of the event because of the dangers. Officials told to look at all, because they work to understand what has happened.
Another incident, on Saturday became the airshow in Martinsburg, W. Go., When the post-Second World War aircraft, the T-28, crashed and caught fire. The pilot was killed.
The Reno Mustang that had dissolved in the crowd minor crash almost exactly 40 years ago when his engine failed. According to two sites that track P-51S, still flying, he made a belly landing at the airport in Reno. The NTSB report September 18, 1970, incident, said in an Air Race engine failure and he crash-landed short of the runway.
P-51 historian Dick Phillips, Bloomington, Minnesota, said Saturday that the plane had been several new engines and changes since a new roof and more.
Sotavento, the ranch owner Leeward Air Racing Team, was a well-known racing driver. His website says he stole more than 120 races and served as a stunt pilot for many films like "Amelie" and "Tuskegee Airmen."
Interview, Ocala (Florida) Star-Banner last year, described how he flew 250 different aircraft and has a particular preference for the P-51, which has become the second world war, a relatively late and has been used as a spare long-range bomber in Europe. Fighter pilots famous hot new was a double ace Chuck Yeager.
The National Championship Air races attract thousands of people in Reno in September to see all the different races of military and civilian aircraft. Local schools often hold field trips there, and a book of local sports has made Paris the results.
The FAA and the organizers spend months Air Race Air Race ready, as they develop a plan that involves pilot qualifications, training and testing in collaboration with a layout for the course. FAA inspects work practice pilots and drivers memory on route maneuvers and emergency procedures.
John Townes, a pilot from Reno, said the plane did not look good just before the accident.
"It was very vertical. He was in a very small angle and therefore, I probably saved many people," he said. "Usually, when you see a plane crash, is recognizable remains. There was nothing, only small parts metal. "
Associated Press writers participate in this report, including AP Writer Joshua Freed airlines to Minneapolis, Haven Daley, Scott Sonner and Martin Griffith in Reno, Brian Skoloff in Salt Lake City, Holbrook Mohr in Jackson, Mississippi, and Michelle Rindels, Cristina Silva and Oskar Garcia in Las Vegas.
A few moments earlier had thousands of their necks arched to the sky and saw the speed of the aircraft by a few hundred meters above the ground before someone noticed a strange gurgling sound of the engine from above. Seconds later P-51 Mustang called The Galloping Ghost struck strangely on the rise, danced and took an immediate tumble in a section of white VIP boxes.
National Transportation Safety Board officials were at the scene Saturday to determine what caused Jimmy Leeward lose control of the aircraft, and they watched an amateur video clip appeared to show a small piece of the plane crash to the ground before crash. Witnesses who saw the pictures of the game, said he turned out to be a "trim tab" which helps drivers maintain control of the aircraft.
Reno police also GPS mapping system will help researchers to re-fight scene.
The researchers said the recovered part of the tail section, where the card is located.
A walk near the proposed site for journalists Saturday night showed wreckage scattered in a fan shape over a hectare around a crater about three feet deep and as much as eight feet in diameter. Based on the location of the crater, according to P-51 Mustang went straight down in the first rows of seats VIP lounge, or about 65 feet leading edge of the platform.
Yellow tape surrounded the scene and the seats of the spectators was evil.
Doctors who treated the wounded said that the worst cases they've ever seen, because a large number of people, including at least two children under 18 who are not among the critical issues.
These injuries included major head injury, trauma and facial injuries to members, including amputations, said Dr. Myron Gomes, chief trauma surgeon at the medical center renowned region.
"I've seen more patients, but never so many patients with this number of serious injuries," said Dr. Michael Mork head of the department of emergency Renown, who trained at Cook County General Hospital in Chicago.
"It was traumatic," he said.
"It would have been much worse if the plane had beaten a few lines before," said Don Berliner, president of the Society of Historians and former Air Races Reno Air Races officer. "We could talk about hundreds of deaths."
Some credit cards driver to avoid the accident to be far more deadly by avoiding the section with forums up last minute, but it is impossible at this point to know his thoughts when he was confronted with a disaster and had only seconds to react.
One of the things the investigators said they look at is health Leeward, the pilot of 74 who friends say was healthy.
Witnesses described a horrific scene after the plane hit the public and sent a cloud of brown dust blown by the wind. When it cleared a few moments later, the bodies still scattered on the ground, some in groups, while others stumbled around bleeding and shocked.
"I saw the spinner, the wings, the canopy simply come straight at us. He hit just in front of us, probably 50 to 75 feet, "says Ryan Harris, of Round Mountain, Nevada" The next thing I saw was a wall of debris rising to the air. It I have sprayed with. In the wall of debris, I noticed that there were pieces of flesh. "
"We are going through what we do in the event of an incident," said Ken Romero, director of the Emergency Services Authority region. "We went through how to react when the bus multi-victim incidents and what is on the bus (as equipment), how to set up free zones and how to sort."
Crash was the first time the public had been killed since the race began 47 years ago in Reno Twenty pilots, including the Leeward died at the time, race officials said.
And 'the only of its kind in the United States Air Race. Air is an annual event for flying wing-to-wing as low as 50 feet off the ground, sometimes at speeds exceeding 500 mph. Pilots follow an oval path around pylons, with distances and speeds depending on the class of air.
Disaster was renewed calls on the organizers of the race to take into account the end of the event because of the dangers. Officials told to look at all, because they work to understand what has happened.
Another incident, on Saturday became the airshow in Martinsburg, W. Go., When the post-Second World War aircraft, the T-28, crashed and caught fire. The pilot was killed.
P-51 historian Dick Phillips, Bloomington, Minnesota, said Saturday that the plane had been several new engines and changes since a new roof and more.
Sotavento, the ranch owner Leeward Air Racing Team, was a well-known racing driver. His website says he stole more than 120 races and served as a stunt pilot for many films like "Amelie" and "Tuskegee Airmen."
Interview, Ocala (Florida) Star-Banner last year, described how he flew 250 different aircraft and has a particular preference for the P-51, which has become the second world war, a relatively late and has been used as a spare long-range bomber in Europe. Fighter pilots famous hot new was a double ace Chuck Yeager.
The National Championship Air races attract thousands of people in Reno in September to see all the different races of military and civilian aircraft. Local schools often hold field trips there, and a book of local sports has made Paris the results.
The FAA and the organizers spend months Air Race Air Race ready, as they develop a plan that involves pilot qualifications, training and testing in collaboration with a layout for the course. FAA inspects work practice pilots and drivers memory on route maneuvers and emergency procedures.
John Townes, a pilot from Reno, said the plane did not look good just before the accident.
"It was very vertical. He was in a very small angle and therefore, I probably saved many people," he said. "Usually, when you see a plane crash, is recognizable remains. There was nothing, only small parts metal. "
Associated Press writers participate in this report, including AP Writer Joshua Freed airlines to Minneapolis, Haven Daley, Scott Sonner and Martin Griffith in Reno, Brian Skoloff in Salt Lake City, Holbrook Mohr in Jackson, Mississippi, and Michelle Rindels, Cristina Silva and Oskar Garcia in Las Vegas.
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