Reporter working this tonight was perhaps harder than most. Patrolling the highway is never easy knowing that 2 of your own died only hours earlier. And even harder when one of the 2 was someone you knew. Lee worked with officer gonzalez in the same San Jose Office before he transferred to fresno in 2010. Easy to talk to. Times we worked together i remember him just always being really steady and even keel. He was hand the wheel when they crashed on highway 99 on their way to assist in a multivehicle accident on the northbound lane. Turned out the accident was actually on the south bound lane. Officers took evasive action to avoid striking any of the parties from the previous collision. Lost control of the vehicle. Struck the guard rai rail. And severely crashed. Reporter this is video of gonzalez on the job two years ago from our sister station in fresno. 33yearold leaves behind mother, sister and girl friend who was planning to propose to. Officer brian law mane while leaves hyped hi
California mourns the loss of 2 Highway Patrol officers tonight. Killed in the lien of duty. Those officers killed trying to avoid crashing in an accident scene in the central valley. Both men had worked this the bay area before transferring to reno. Good evening. Im in for carolyn. Officer brian law began his career with the chp in oakland. Officer Juan Gonzalez worked for the chp office in san jose and thats where lillian is live tonight to again our coverage. Lillian . Officer gonzalez worked at the office for a couple of years. Officers say avenues good mentor. Approachable. With a good attitude. Its been tough. Reporter working this tonight was perhaps harder than most. Patrolling the highway is never easy knowing that 2 of your own died only hours earlier. And even harder when one of the 2 was someone you knew. Lee worked with officer gonzalez in the same San Jose Office before he transferred to fresno in 2010. Easy to talk to. Times we worked together i remember him just always
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Many years. Every five seconds seems to take an eternity. Tragedy after a popular bay area stunt pilot crashes his plane in front of thousands of people. Im ama dates. The pilot of the plane has been identified as 77yearold eddie andrini, a wellknown stunt pilot and owner of the eddie andrini airshows out of Half Moon Bay. It happened before 2 00 this afternoon at the thunder over solano airshow. Sergio joins us live with a look at what happened today. Sergio . Ama, this was the first airshow here at Travis Air Force base in a few years and the stunt by plane was one of the last acts in the two days. So witnesses told me that the stunt pilot was making his second attempt at his stunt when that by plane got too close to the runway and crashed. This is Youtube Video of the crash. Stunt pilot eddie andrini was performing a fly by to convert the runway. And then this video of smoke rising over the tarmac. Witnesses say the stunt pilot was performing a fly by to cut a ribbon over the runway
The last acts in the two days. So witnesses told me that the stunt pilot was making his second attempt at his stunt when that by plane got too close to the runway and crashed. This is Youtube Video of the crash. Stunt pilot eddie andrini was performing a fly by to convert the runway. And then this video of smoke rising over the tarmac. Witnesses say the stunt pilot was performing a fly by to cut a ribbon over the runway. He came low and upside down. I saw it coming in to cut the ribbon president i thought everything was going fine. He was coming really close. Just glide it on the runway. You can see the white smoke coming out. And then after that the plane comes to the stop the black smoke was billowing out. Witnesses say it had seen the plane burn before fire crews arrived. It took a eternity. Eternity. You are thinking why the hell arent they getting out there . Every five seconds they will yan eternity. Y seem to take fire trucks were, pad behind the crowd. And that seemed to slow t