Aerobatic pilot veteran of World War II vintage fighter plunged into the crowd in an air-ride Nevada, killing three people and wounding at least 58, has spent the last few seconds of wrestling control of his plane to save potentially hundreds of other lives, witnesses supported.
Jimmy Leeward, 74, was killed in front of his family and thousands of spectators in his restored 1940's planes, Galloping Ghost, immersed in the concrete in addition to a VIP reception area about 500 miles per hour, meters a platform crowded.
"He hit hard, full throttle," said Dr. Gerald Lent, an eyewitness, describing how the body parts and debris filled the stage.
"It looked like a war zone, and people had shell holes in the head and feet and side. Many people were injured by flying debris, bolts and pieces of the plane, and metal flew through the audience standing and through the VIP stands in front and he was just going in all directions at the speed of sound, metal was flying, "he said.
Viewers have seen the nose of the plane reflex increase suddenly during the third of six laps before he was shot and fell to the ground. Some have speculated that he had deliberately thrown the plane head on the ground at full speed to avoid falling into the stands after a malfunction.
"Jimmy, you saved my life. You have pulled up just enough to lose us, 50 feet," said a passer-by, Jon Wehan, my colleague, Leeward Facebook page.
Another marina, Johnny Norman, said: "If you do something about it, has saved hundreds if not thousands, of lives because he was able to tack back toward the plane on the runway."
Tim Linville, who was at the event with her two daughters, said: "If he had not lifted, would have taken out the entire section (the platform)."
The accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board investigating the causes of the accident at Reno air races of the championship in which the P-51 Mustang went out of control during the third round of a field of 8.4 miles.
In local hospitals, appealed to blood donors are victims of passenger fleet as well as ambulances and helicopters. According to officials, at least 28 58 of the victims had life-threatening injuries. All that remained of the aircraft, which left a crater in the ground, it was shrapnel. The rest of the event, which was to be decided on Sunday, was canceled.
Hospitality area, located just opposite the main stand, hosted VIP guests also show sponsors and families, while the Mustang pilots broke. Mr. Leeward group of 18 relatives and friends were involved in its events, including his son, Dirk, and Kent.
Mike Houghton, chairman of the Board and CEO, said: "They are obviously devastated talked to his son Jimmy and his wife wanted me to know that Jimmy does not want to cancel the races, but sometimes you have to do things that are. No is very popular. "
It is unknown whether the wife of Mr. de Sotavento Bette was actually present, but was known to accompany her husband to the store and spoke in an interview last year with the Ocala Star-Banner, a local newspaper in Florida, his nervousness his hobby.
"The thing is, since we were high school lovers, I just grew up with that. When you're young, it does not seem too worried, but now it's a bit more difficult. But Jimmy likes to do, so I'm going with it. I just pray, "she said.
The Lord of Leeward and the aircraft were the oldest participants in the race, even though the organizers have stressed that the pilot's medical records showed him to be perfectly healthy and that mechanical failure was the probable cause of tragedy. He had sent a Mayday message on the radio just before the accident.
He was known as one of the biggest names in the air race, having flown 250 different devices and has participated in over 120 races. He also served as a stunt pilot in films such as Amélie, which included Hilary Swank, Richard Gere and Ewan McGregor in a drama about the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, and the Tuskegee Airmen, which tells the story of a group African-American fighter pilots World War 2.
Other Hollywood credits included the 2006 film Dragonfly, which starred the actor and the other pilot, John Travolta.
Reno Air Races are the most dangerous in the world, where pilots fly 50ft above the lowest spot.
They attract about 200,000 spectators each year and are thrill seekers Racing wing to wing at altitudes up to 50 feet and speeds over 500 mph.
"Each race is only one episode a week of exciting polo column, full of drama, excitement at every turn and the endings you never see coming," See the website says.
The event attracts regular visitors including VIPs Mr. Travolta, who lives near his home, Mr. de Sotavento, Florida, and the astronauts and the first and last men on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan.
Gibson former space shuttle pilot Robert "Hoot" which have confronted the lord of Lee, but withdrew due to technical problems, was also among the crowd. Despite being a rival race, the two were friends and Mr. Gibson, 64, had served as technical adviser on the project of Mr. de Sotavento for five years to rebuild the Saint-Galop, which had a water cooling similar to that used in NASA space shuttles.
Tim O'Brien, one of the organizers of an air show in California, who was taking photos in the case of Reno, said he believed he had seen a piece of the plane's tail, called autumn "crop" that could have caused the plane and then shakes the plunge and "shock".
Maureen Higgins, participant in the last 16 years, said: "Of course I can not influence went was swinging upside down and then headed directly for us, live audience ..."
Greg Erny and his daughter were sitting in the gallery and a missed injury is a matter of meters.
"We found ourselves sitting next to, by chance, the family - I think - and friends of the pilot, when we followed him around the track because of their enthusiasm when they saw him," he said CBS Early Show.
"We have seen coming around the tower to the west, and his plane is not a vibration, and the next thing you know, he pulled up. All of a sudden he turned and went in the ground vertically and went to moments of pleasant moments of disbelief and shock in a few seconds. "
He added: "Everyone was shocked - no, we really just witness what we saw?" Ironically, three officials of the National Transportation Safety Board, the federal agency that investigates plane crashes, if the show was already the case - aware of his reputation of Formula One in the sky that turned deadly in the past. Four pilots were killed in separate incidents there in 2007 and 2008.
The creation of the medical triage center on the edge of the track to give priority to victims. Vintage helicopter, which was supposed to attend a separate event in the show have been ordered to fly the victims to hospital as ambulances struggled to cope with massive losses, runs a local resident, who jumped on board to help direct the pilot .
The family of Mr de Sotavento, said in a statement. "We are deeply saddened. Please join us in prayer right now for all the families affected."
Hundreds of drivers and fans around the world have left messages of sympathy to the veteran aviator Facebook page, which minutes before the race started posted a link for them to watch the race live on the Internet, noting with enthusiasm: "Jimmy starts now. "
Fans bid farewell airman died on his Facebook page with the message "Blue Skies".
Some borrowed from the poem High Flight, written by WW2 pilot, John Gillespie Magee, who died in mid-air collision over Lincolnshire in 1941: ".. Oh, I have a sour relationship to the Earth and the heavens dance laughter-silvered wings stretched out my hand and touched the face of God "
Leeward M. joked in an interview before the race that his team was to keep his race tactics as secret as if it had been "playing poker."
"We are as fast as anyone in the area, maybe a little faster," he said. "We are ready to show a few more cards, so we'll see what happens Friday."
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Jimmy Leeward, 74, was killed in front of his family and thousands of spectators in his restored 1940's planes, Galloping Ghost, immersed in the concrete in addition to a VIP reception area about 500 miles per hour, meters a platform crowded.
"He hit hard, full throttle," said Dr. Gerald Lent, an eyewitness, describing how the body parts and debris filled the stage.
"It looked like a war zone, and people had shell holes in the head and feet and side. Many people were injured by flying debris, bolts and pieces of the plane, and metal flew through the audience standing and through the VIP stands in front and he was just going in all directions at the speed of sound, metal was flying, "he said.
Viewers have seen the nose of the plane reflex increase suddenly during the third of six laps before he was shot and fell to the ground. Some have speculated that he had deliberately thrown the plane head on the ground at full speed to avoid falling into the stands after a malfunction.
"Jimmy, you saved my life. You have pulled up just enough to lose us, 50 feet," said a passer-by, Jon Wehan, my colleague, Leeward Facebook page.
Another marina, Johnny Norman, said: "If you do something about it, has saved hundreds if not thousands, of lives because he was able to tack back toward the plane on the runway."
Tim Linville, who was at the event with her two daughters, said: "If he had not lifted, would have taken out the entire section (the platform)."
The accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board investigating the causes of the accident at Reno air races of the championship in which the P-51 Mustang went out of control during the third round of a field of 8.4 miles.
In local hospitals, appealed to blood donors are victims of passenger fleet as well as ambulances and helicopters. According to officials, at least 28 58 of the victims had life-threatening injuries. All that remained of the aircraft, which left a crater in the ground, it was shrapnel. The rest of the event, which was to be decided on Sunday, was canceled.
Hospitality area, located just opposite the main stand, hosted VIP guests also show sponsors and families, while the Mustang pilots broke. Mr. Leeward group of 18 relatives and friends were involved in its events, including his son, Dirk, and Kent.
Mike Houghton, chairman of the Board and CEO, said: "They are obviously devastated talked to his son Jimmy and his wife wanted me to know that Jimmy does not want to cancel the races, but sometimes you have to do things that are. No is very popular. "
It is unknown whether the wife of Mr. de Sotavento Bette was actually present, but was known to accompany her husband to the store and spoke in an interview last year with the Ocala Star-Banner, a local newspaper in Florida, his nervousness his hobby.
"The thing is, since we were high school lovers, I just grew up with that. When you're young, it does not seem too worried, but now it's a bit more difficult. But Jimmy likes to do, so I'm going with it. I just pray, "she said.
The Lord of Leeward and the aircraft were the oldest participants in the race, even though the organizers have stressed that the pilot's medical records showed him to be perfectly healthy and that mechanical failure was the probable cause of tragedy. He had sent a Mayday message on the radio just before the accident.
He was known as one of the biggest names in the air race, having flown 250 different devices and has participated in over 120 races. He also served as a stunt pilot in films such as Amélie, which included Hilary Swank, Richard Gere and Ewan McGregor in a drama about the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, and the Tuskegee Airmen, which tells the story of a group African-American fighter pilots World War 2.
Other Hollywood credits included the 2006 film Dragonfly, which starred the actor and the other pilot, John Travolta.
Reno Air Races are the most dangerous in the world, where pilots fly 50ft above the lowest spot.
They attract about 200,000 spectators each year and are thrill seekers Racing wing to wing at altitudes up to 50 feet and speeds over 500 mph.
"Each race is only one episode a week of exciting polo column, full of drama, excitement at every turn and the endings you never see coming," See the website says.
The event attracts regular visitors including VIPs Mr. Travolta, who lives near his home, Mr. de Sotavento, Florida, and the astronauts and the first and last men on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan.
Gibson former space shuttle pilot Robert "Hoot" which have confronted the lord of Lee, but withdrew due to technical problems, was also among the crowd. Despite being a rival race, the two were friends and Mr. Gibson, 64, had served as technical adviser on the project of Mr. de Sotavento for five years to rebuild the Saint-Galop, which had a water cooling similar to that used in NASA space shuttles.
Tim O'Brien, one of the organizers of an air show in California, who was taking photos in the case of Reno, said he believed he had seen a piece of the plane's tail, called autumn "crop" that could have caused the plane and then shakes the plunge and "shock".
Maureen Higgins, participant in the last 16 years, said: "Of course I can not influence went was swinging upside down and then headed directly for us, live audience ..."
Greg Erny and his daughter were sitting in the gallery and a missed injury is a matter of meters.
"We found ourselves sitting next to, by chance, the family - I think - and friends of the pilot, when we followed him around the track because of their enthusiasm when they saw him," he said CBS Early Show.
"We have seen coming around the tower to the west, and his plane is not a vibration, and the next thing you know, he pulled up. All of a sudden he turned and went in the ground vertically and went to moments of pleasant moments of disbelief and shock in a few seconds. "
He added: "Everyone was shocked - no, we really just witness what we saw?" Ironically, three officials of the National Transportation Safety Board, the federal agency that investigates plane crashes, if the show was already the case - aware of his reputation of Formula One in the sky that turned deadly in the past. Four pilots were killed in separate incidents there in 2007 and 2008.
The creation of the medical triage center on the edge of the track to give priority to victims. Vintage helicopter, which was supposed to attend a separate event in the show have been ordered to fly the victims to hospital as ambulances struggled to cope with massive losses, runs a local resident, who jumped on board to help direct the pilot .
The family of Mr de Sotavento, said in a statement. "We are deeply saddened. Please join us in prayer right now for all the families affected."
Hundreds of drivers and fans around the world have left messages of sympathy to the veteran aviator Facebook page, which minutes before the race started posted a link for them to watch the race live on the Internet, noting with enthusiasm: "Jimmy starts now. "
Fans bid farewell airman died on his Facebook page with the message "Blue Skies".
Some borrowed from the poem High Flight, written by WW2 pilot, John Gillespie Magee, who died in mid-air collision over Lincolnshire in 1941: ".. Oh, I have a sour relationship to the Earth and the heavens dance laughter-silvered wings stretched out my hand and touched the face of God "
Leeward M. joked in an interview before the race that his team was to keep his race tactics as secret as if it had been "playing poker."
"We are as fast as anyone in the area, maybe a little faster," he said. "We are ready to show a few more cards, so we'll see what happens Friday."
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