A few hours ago..... A bunch of people in the crowd dead and several more injured. This year has not been a kind one for Air shows. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hzvro_u73xM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
I never liked planes. This compounds my dislike for them after I read the story about some of my favorite hockey players dying in a plane crash last week.
so far only 3 confirmed dead http://news.yahoo.com/3-dead-56-injured-horrific-reno-air-show-020656982.html
Can't believe this r****ded air shows are still going on. Never understood why these thing flying next to the spectators. To top it off you have a 74 year old guy flying it.
The pilot is now being credited with saving lives by getting the plane away from the crowd. "The way I see it, if he did do something about this, he saved hundreds if not thousands of lives because he was able to veer that plane back toward the tarmac," said Johnny Norman, who was at the show. O'Brien, who is chairman of an air show in his hometown in California, was photographing Friday's races when the crash occurred. He said the P-51 Mustang was racing six other planes, and was in the process of moving from third place into second, when it pitched violently upward, rolled and then headed straight down. From the photos he took, O'Brien said it looked like a piece of the plane's tail called a "trim tab" had fallen off. He believes that's what caused the plane's sudden climb.
It appears that this particular quote is looking to be true as it does appear from the enhanced pic below that a portion of the plane's tail was indeed missing before it crashed.
