situation as the plane crashed in the grandstands where people were seated. you can only imagine a horrific situation. we are still waiting for more information to come in. this happening, again, at about 4:30 local time on the west coast. the stands were packed with thousands of people. you can see from the video. there is the smoke. there is the crash on the ground. it was a terrifying situation for those people at the air show. so many people injured. 7 a at this point. 25 critically. again, we don t know if there are any deaths associated with this crash. we are waiting to hear and we ll certainly bring you more information throughout the night. we ll have more reports coming up on hannity. and then later with greta. in the meantime, if you are just tuning in, let me bring you up to speed. there has been a mass casualty situation in reno, nevada at the championship national championship air races. this is an event that draws thousands of people every year.
stands. mike draper, a spokesman for the air races told the associated press that the pilot, jimmy lee ward, he was piloting a p-51 mustang that crashed into the box seat area at the front of the grandstand. this happening about 4:30 p.m. local time on the west coast. he said he did not have any information of the number of people injured at the time but now we know it looks like 75 people have been injured. 25 critically. just some background on othe national championship air races, it does draw thousands of people every year this time of the year in september to watch various military and civilian planes race. now, it wasn t immediately known. it s not immediately known at this point if there are any deaths associated with this crash. but it is being called a mass casualty situation. a local television station there, krnv aired videotape of the scene that showed at least four people being carried away on stretchers to ambulances. that was early on though. there could be many more peo