Reno, Nevada (Reuters) - Nine people were killed and over 50 were injured when the era of the Second World War fighter plane crashed near the Nevada forum is a race plane, authorities said Saturday.
Reno Deputy Police Chief Dave Evans said that seven people died on the tarmac at Reno Stead Airport following the accident on Friday night.
In total, 54 people were transported to area hospitals where two died from their injuries, said Evans.
Team of the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration researchers have landed at the crash scene shows Air Race, where the motto is "Fly low, fly fast."
The pilot Jimmy Leeward, 74, among those killed when his P-51 Mustang named "Ghost gallop" crashed in a box in front of the main stand, said Mike Draper, a spokesman Races of the 48th annual National Air Championship, also known as the Reno Air Races.
Reno Deputy Police Chief Dave Evans said that seven people died on the tarmac at Reno Stead Airport following the accident on Friday night.
In total, 54 people were transported to area hospitals where two died from their injuries, said Evans.
Team of the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration researchers have landed at the crash scene shows Air Race, where the motto is "Fly low, fly fast."
The pilot Jimmy Leeward, 74, among those killed when his P-51 Mustang named "Ghost gallop" crashed in a box in front of the main stand, said Mike Draper, a spokesman Races of the 48th annual National Air Championship, also known as the Reno Air Races.
"It was like a war zone, where the boxes were," said Draper.
Dean Davis, the man from Oregon, who has participated in competitions for decades, said: "All the people were there."
A spokesman of Fame Regional Medical Center said the hospital received 30 patients from the accident and five others were brought fame to its subsidiary South Meadows Medical Center.
Of these 35 patients, 6 were listed in critical condition on Saturday, two are in serious condition and five in good condition. One person was listed in good condition, and the others were discharged.
"FLY LOW, fly fast"
Near the aircraft is a draw for the annual race, which advises on its website, "Always remember to fly low, fly fast and turn left."
Draper said the planes sometimes fly at great speed "about 50 feet off the ground and is an exciting vision, exciting."
Tension has been a deadly one occasion, in which nine died on Friday, scoring 28 people have died in the history of the race flew to Reno every year since 1964, Draper has confirmed.
"The Reno Air Racing Association extends its deepest condolences to all those affected by the tragic events of yesterday," the association said in a statement.
Mark Hasar Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is a veteran of the Air Force, who witnessed the accident. "As soon as I saw his nose pointed toward the ground, I knew he would not recover," Hasar Reuters.
The plane Reno Air Races feature disables the multi-turn race at the airfield north of Reno.
Houghton said the Leeward known real estate developer and instructor maintained without Ranch in Ocala, Fla., was his good friend.
Leeward came from a family of aviation, the son of a pilot, and his own son had also stolen. He worked as a stuntman in several films, including 2002-release, "Dragonfly".
Reno crash was the latest in a wave of fatal air show since August.
Last month, the pilot of an aerobatic aircraft died in a fire accident in front of spectators shocked by the air show weekend in Kansas City. In Michigan last month, a wing walker an air show near Detroit crashed about 200 feet to his death while trying to climb a helicopter in the air.
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