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Plane Crashes Into Crowd at Nevada Air Race, Injuring More Than 75
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Posted on 09/16/2011 7:05:20 PM PDT by nuconvert

DEVELOPING: RENO, Nev. -- An airplane crashed Friday into a crowd attending an air race here, injuring dozens in what one event official described as a "mass-casualty situation."

A medical official later said more than 75 people had been injured, including 25 critically. There was no official word on deaths, though one report put the toll as high as 12 and the crash near the grandstands left a horrific scene of bodies and wreckage.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: aerospace; airrace; airshow; aviation; planecrash; reno; renoairraces; waketurbulence
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To: CFIIIMEIATP737

These aircraft generate a considerable wake vortex at 500 mph pulling G’s. I have seen upsets in all the classes raced at Reno. I witnessed the whole incident from the start at the #8 pylon to impact. Although pictures show a missing elevator trim tab the beginning of the incident looked to be classic wake upset.

Did that cause the elevator tab to fail? Beats me the NTSB had 3 people at the venue and I’m sure they saw the whole thing. Another NTSB person is coming in from DC

It’ll be a while before most of the story comes out


101 posted on 09/17/2011 10:51:14 AM PDT by hattend (If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead. - Cameron Connor)
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To: famousdayandyear

Accepted, and thank you .. have a good weekend.


102 posted on 09/17/2011 12:43:05 PM PDT by tomkat (para bellum)
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To: nuconvert; SkyDancer
Just damn!

A B-25 came roaring over our house at tree top level today. Doesn't happen often, but when it does its a thrill for this veteran.

103 posted on 09/17/2011 4:17:32 PM PDT by Northern Yankee (Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: nuconvert; SkyDancer
Prayers to all those who perished or injured.
104 posted on 09/17/2011 4:27:13 PM PDT by Northern Yankee (Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: All

Update: Number dead is now 9 (as per CNN)


105 posted on 09/17/2011 4:36:54 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Northern Yankee

All over the news down here - wow!


106 posted on 09/17/2011 4:46:42 PM PDT by SkyDancer (A critic is like a legless man who teaches running.)
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To: driftdiver; Semper911

Just a few additional thoughts: How is the comparison “ignorant”? In both cases the event organizers KNOWINGLY put people’s lives in the face of injury or death without any thoughts regarding safety-—all for financial profit. Both are responsible for the deaths and injuries of the victims. The airshow organizers, like the nightclub owners, will be sued for damages and might also face criminal charges.

“These airshows are highly regulated and professionally run.”

Tell that to the 9 dead and many that were ctitically injured and see if they agree.


107 posted on 09/18/2011 12:52:18 AM PDT by dupree
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To: Balding_Eagle

Well, I would rather curl up in my bed than curl up in a casket.


108 posted on 09/18/2011 1:08:02 AM PDT by dupree
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To: dupree

Are you a fag? Did you vote for Barry Hussein Soetoro Obama? Get the hell out of my country.


109 posted on 09/18/2011 1:09:13 AM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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To: caww

I bet at least 9 of the people that chose to attend this “entertainment” probably won’t choose to attend the next one. Nor will the man that lost his eye or the man with 100 fractures in his face or......


110 posted on 09/18/2011 1:19:30 AM PDT by dupree
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To: 3boysdad

Actually,if it matters, I’m a married mom that voted for Sarah Palin with a knowledge of right and wrong and an appreciation for COMMON SENSE, which tells me that allowing people to sit directly under outdated airplanes with ancient engines that are flown by 74-YEAR-OLD daredevils at 400 mph is probably not a good idea. I didn’t know that this was such a threatening idea.


111 posted on 09/18/2011 1:46:48 AM PDT by dupree
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To: dupree

“Tell that to the 9 dead and many that were ctitically injured and see if they agree.”

I’d wager the majority of those people knew the risks far better than you or I.

Life is full of risks. You can hide from them behind a keyboard or you can go out and actually live your life.


112 posted on 09/18/2011 4:54:17 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: dupree

What you’re doing is incredibly crass, bringing an argument into this thread.

Are you a member of Westboro?


113 posted on 09/18/2011 4:55:52 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: dupree

The obvious is quite obvious...however those who are alive and well certainly love the entertainment and will indeed likely go again. Race cars too have accidents...I don’t see crowds thining for the many accidents which occur there.


114 posted on 09/18/2011 6:09:14 AM PDT by caww
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To: dupree

You know nothing of the event, how it is run, the planes, the pilots or the fans.


115 posted on 09/18/2011 9:12:53 AM PDT by hattend (If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead. - Cameron Connor)
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To: Roccus

Thanks Roccus

We were close. You can see us in some of the still photos.

When I get home so I am using a computer instead of a phone I may point us out

Prayers up for those injured and dead.


116 posted on 09/18/2011 9:22:19 AM PDT by hattend (If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead. - Cameron Connor)
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To: CFIIIMEIATP737
I've got over 30 years of air traffic control experience, and I'm telling you that it's happened before,
and at the speeds they're racing, and their modified contitions, it's VERY possible.
117 posted on 09/18/2011 5:34:03 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: Yosemitest

I appreciate your more than thirty years of air traffic control experience. As for my credentials, pleased look at my screen name. It stands for Certificated Flight Instructor, Instrument Instructor, Multiengine Instructor and the 737 is the first of the many type ratings I hold in a variety of jet aircraft. Not included is my masters degree in aeronautical science, my fifteen years as a professor of aeronautical science and over eleven thousand hours of pilot in command and over five thousand hours of instruction given.

You say that this has happened before. Could you please cite an NTSB finding to support your claim?


118 posted on 09/18/2011 6:19:13 PM PDT by CFIIIMEIATP737
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To: CFIIIMEIATP737
Read this (Tommy Rose Pre-Crash Photo: Source?) and if you want the photo of the pre-crash evidence of that 2002 wake turbulence crash, you can request it yourself.

From another source about Tommy Rose's crash.

Have you seen this photo?




119 posted on 09/18/2011 10:09:41 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: CFIIIMEIATP737
Since you're a CFI, you know that a Mustang P-51 is a CAT III aircraft for wake turbulence. Source is almost at the bottom, after ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORP. (USA)
I don't know what type aircraft were ahead of him, but I assume the similar type aircraft with similar type speeds.
You also know the definition of: You know that a touch and go/low approach (what is closest to the air racing low to the ground) over the same runway requires, When either is a Category III aircraft- 6,000 feet and that's at a normal landing speed.
These racing aircraft were NOT a landing speed.
You're familiar with the AIM, chapter 7, but just in case you want to review it, click here.
But let's review anyway.
Something else that you probably are aware of is wind's effects on wake turbulence.
But just remember
120 posted on 09/18/2011 11:25:47 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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