Plane crashes at US air race
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heard his engine and looked up. He was within 100 feet (30 metres). He was coming right down on top of us, witness Fred Scholz told buy canada goose jacket cheap CNN. just happened very quick.
The Canada Goose sale Federal Aviation Administration halted the air race after the crash, and was investigating the incident alongside the National Transportation Safety Board, Canada Goose Jackets an FAA official Canada Goose Online said.
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The canada goose uk shop head of the Reno Air Racing Association, Michael Houghton, put the canada goose factory sale number of injured at 54 and said uk canada goose the 74 year old pilot was killed. He had previously put the pilot age at 80.
Renown Regional Medical Center spokesman Dan Davis said that at least two people were killed a man and a woman. An event spokeswoman said Canada Goose Parka the pilot had died in addition to the two confirmed dead by Renown.
GOING TO RECOVER Mark Hasara uk canada goose outlet of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, an Air Force veteran who witnessed the crash, told Reuters, soon buy canada goose jacket as I saw his nose pointed at the ground, I knew he wasn going to recover.
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He said his crew cut 10 feet (3 metres) off the plane wingspan and made other modifications to improve its aerodynamic abilities and reach speeds of 500 mph (800 kph).
Leeward came from an aviation family he was the son of a pilot, and his own sons have also flown planes. He worked as a stunt pilot on a few movies, including canada goose uk outlet the 2002 release
The Reno crash was canada goose uk black friday the latest in a spate of fatal air show accidents in the United States cheap canada goose uk since August.
Last month, the pilot of an aerobatic airplane died in a fiery crash in front of shocked onlookers at a weekend air show in Kansas City, Missouri. In Michigan last month, a wingwalker at an air Canada Goose online show near Detroit plunged about 200 feet (60 metres) to his death as he tried to climb onto a helicopter in midair.