the question was this aircraft does not have a black box, no. it is an old vintage aircraft. there are many that do not have what you refer to as a black box nor are they required to have a black box. the problem is that we investigated accidents for decades, and it has only been in the last few that black boxes actually exist. so we go back to the basics. the initial report was a loss of engine power. we re going to look at that and we re going to look at everything. why do pilots always recommend not to turn around. the procedure is not making a u-turn. i don t have any clue. a return to airport depends on what altitude you re at. i don t know what altitude this pilot was at at the time that he chose to do that.
professor of practice at george washington university, good of you to stay. hello. we re fighting with the iranians and assad, this is fun. we re not fighting with the iranians and not fighting with ass assad. the united states has narrowed shared interests but we re not allies of either iran or an assad-led syrian government. let me use an analogy. russia and the united states have a common interest in seeing that iran does not become a nuclear power. no one would call russia and the united states allies today. all right. that s fair. if what do we do going forward if there are problems? whose side do we take if this conflict what i m saying, if conflicts broaden. it s a complicated mix whether we re allies or working directly with them or not. it s still a little messed up. let me say one more thing, the f-4s you allude to were american made. they re vietnam vintage
the rough numbers are injuries are due to the fact that nobody has given us a concrete total on them. we have the numbers of people being transcriported. the incident is a plane crash. a small world war ii vintage aircraft modified for racing purposes. this is what we know about the pilot, one of the deceased. his name is jimmy leeward of owe call yashgs florida, an 80-year-old pilot. he is owner of the leeward racing team. he has flown 250 different types of planes in his career and 150 hundr races. he has been in a few movies as a stunt artist. he had a particular fondness for this p-51 aircraft. this is the galloping ghost.
and we heard air ambulances on site to take people to medical facilities. 56 is the number of people who went in vehicles like that. additional people went to seek medical care or who left the site visibly wounded in private vehicles. so we expect that the number of injured will rise. at this point the number of confirmed deaths in this incident is three, that includes the pilot, an 80-year-old very experienced stunt pilot flying a modified vintage aircraft at this air racing event, an experienced air racer as well as being an experienced stunt pilot. he is among the three dead. we do not have identities for the other two people who are confirmed by local hospitals who have been killed tonight in this incident in reno. we don t have identities. they are telling us ahead that it is from renowned health center nearby the air crash site where they have identified two additional people killed. at this point we re awaiting a press conference with the latest details from the stead air base
miles per hour. this was a vintage aircraft but a highly, highly modified one. they re modified not only for speed but for the additional control that the pilot will need over an aircraft that is modified to go that fast. when you have engines that big and that much power packed into these types of planes, you need to change the pilot s controls to allow for maneuverability. this is a highly modified aircraft. the pilots following in this race an oval path around pylons. the distance and speeds depending on the class of aircraft. we have a bit of tape here from a woman who was an eyewitness to this event. she has been to a number of air races and seen aircraft pull out of races but not like the way that this ended tonight. listen. the races were going on on the third lap, second or third lap. it came up over this hangar that