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Another Air Show Crash! Pilot Killed In West Virginia


Posted on Sep 18, 2011 @ 07:43AM - Add a comment

By Radar Staff

Just 24 hours after the horrifying air show disaster in Reno, a pilot was killed at a similar show in West Virginia.

Jack Mangan was piloting his T-28 fixed wing plane, built in 1958, when it plunged to the ground in front of thousands of shocked spectators.

Just 24 hours after the horrifying air show disaster in Reno, a pilot was killed at a similar show in West Virginia.

Jack Mangan was piloting his T-28 fixed wing plane, built in 1958, when it plunged to the ground in front of thousands of shocked spectators.

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He was part of the T-28 Warbird Aerobatic Formation Demonstration Team that annually appeared in numerous shows around the country.

Because the accident happened quite a distance away from the crowd, fortunately no spectators were injured.

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The news is far worse coming out of Reno.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, a well-known Hollywood stunt pilot, Jimmy Leeward, lost control of his historic aircraft at the famed Reno air show and crashed directly into the crowd late Friday.

The death toll in that disaster has now reached nine.

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Hollywood Stunt Pilot And Two Others Killed In Reno Air Show Crash, 58 Injured


Posted on Sep 17, 2011 @ 09:54AM - 4 comments

By Radar Staff

A horrific crash at the famed Reno air show killed three and injured at least 58 spectators.

Veteran Hollywood stunt pilot Jimmy Leeward, 74, was flying his World War II racing plane, a P-51 Mustang, when something went terribly wrong.

A horrific crash at the famed Reno air show killed three and injured at least 58 spectators.

Veteran Hollywood stunt pilot Jimmy Leeward, 74, was flying his World War II racing plane, a P-51 Mustang, when something went terribly wrong.

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The plane literally nosedived into the crowd, sending thousands running in all directions.

"As I saw the plane coming directly at us, I dove," said Nick Sorrentino, 19,  who was in the stands when the plane hit.

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"It was mass chaos. People running. People on the ground. Body parts all over the ground," he told The Los Angeles Times.

Leeward, who was one of the three fatalities, lives in Florida, and was one of the country's most popular air show pilots.

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He flew in the movies Tuskeegee Airmen, Smokey and the Bandit Part 3, Dragonfly, and the 2010 Amelia Earhart biopic Amelia starring Hilary Swank.

Investigators are now on the scene trying to figure out exactly what caused the tragedy.

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