Update 4 - Plane Crashes In Reno, Nevada Air Show, Killing At Least Two
RENO (BNO News) - At least two people were killed late Friday afternoon when a World War II plane crashed at Reno Air Races in Reno-Stead Airport in Nevada, officials said. At least 47 people were injured.
The accident occurred at 4.30 pm local time, when about a P-51D Mustang known as the Galloping Ghost, piloted by 80 year old, Jimmy Lee, crashed into a rest area on the Run the air.
"The air does not turn on, but there was a large field of debris after the accident," said Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). "A number of FAA inspectors were looking at the Air Race time fail."
Stephanie Kruse, a spokeswoman for the Regional Emergency Medical Services Authority (REMSA), said an ambulance transported a total of 40 area hospitals. Several others were transported by ambulance from other agencies.
Dan Davis, spokesman of Fame Regional Medical Center, confirmed the hospital received a total of 24 patients. Two injured people in central, while nine were seriously injured. Eleven people are in stable condition in popularity.
St. Mary Hospital has received at least 4 Critical, 7 serious and 11 non-severe patients. Northern Nevada Medical Center, received at least two seriously injured patients, and a person is seriously injured, bringing the total number of 47 injured
"It 'just like a massacre. It' s like an explosion," Dr. Gerald Lent, who witnessed the incident, told the Reno Gazette-Journal. "There are people lying all over the track. A boy was cut in half. There was blood everywhere. There is, hands and feet."
Officials said the notorious street racer, was killed, but it was not immediately known, including the Leeward two confirmed deaths in Renown, or if it is third to die. 2011 Championship Air Races, which began Wednesday and was supposed to do on Sunday, were canceled shortly after the incident.
Governor Brian Sandoval of Nevada, Reno Mayor Bob assured Cashel and local law enforcement agencies that all necessary state resources at their disposal. "My family and my thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families, and I know that every family member Nevada think we lost them, and we appreciate them," he said.
US Senator Harry Reid of Nevada also said he was "deeply saddened" after hearing news of the accident. "My thoughts are with the families of those who lost their lives and those injured in this terrible tragedy," he said in a statement. "I am so grateful that our first responders for their quick response and will continue to monitor the situation in Reno, as it evolves."
According to the website of Team Leeward Air Ranch Racing, owned by Lee, The Phantom of fugitive, was one of 900 Mustang P-51-15-NA type produced by North American Aviation (NAA) in the Second World War. The proposal was originally delivered to the Air Force (FAA) in December 1944 and later was assigned to Third Air Force before being declared surplus in October 1945 and put into storage in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas.
Bruce Raymond and former owners Steve Bevil acquired aircraft involved in an accident on Friday to $ 3,500 in 1946 with the sole purpose of executing the National Air Races. The plane was using the race number "77" of the National Aeronautics Association and was named the ghost galloping in honor of the University of Illinois and Chicago Bears football star Harold "Red "Grange.
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