as can you imagine. events like these draw aviation buffs from all over the country there were pilots on the ground who thought that the elevator on the airplane was maybe damaged prior to the accident. the elevator is a flat surface on an airplane oftentimes on the tail that moves up and down allows the pilots to ascend and descend. no officials have confirmed that yet. it will take time some time for the official ntsb investigators to comb through all of the wreckage and determine if that is, in fact, what caused this plane to go down the p-51 mustang can fly at speeds at more than 500 miles per hour. and was used as a long range bomber escort over europe in the latter part of world war ii. it was surreal to see this part of history just fall from the sky. it was going up at impossible
grim news. and what can you tell me about this p-51 mustang? it is made by north american aircraft corporation probably the most-famous american fighter plane in world war ii. the first plane we put in the air over european area of operation that could outfight the best fighter planes the germans had but in addition, it had fuel capacity to escort bombers, b 17s and b 24s to berlin and back. beginning march, 1944, the casualty rights for crews plummeted and p-51 became the courage of the fleet but also the guardian angel of our formation over europe. greta: looking at the planes they look alike. i had been fortunate to chase an f-16. i can see how it s different. but why was this one so popular? it looks frankly just like an
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
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galloping ghost, qualified for the competition going 465 miles-an-hour. that is awful quick and it is awful dangerous. sean: wing tip to wing tip, 50 feet often ground, just short of 500 miles per hour, it seems like a recipe for disaster. angelo, i understand this is a p-51 mustang that crashed in the brock s seat area of the grandstand. yeah. sean: get. let me just tell you what i saw. let s get down to it. i am a private pilot. i always dreamed of maybe one day flying one of these high powered aircraft. come out here and we saw the aircraft doing their little left turn, very quickly, that is very true. almost like the extreme edge of flying. these pilots know that they are pushing airplanes to about as far as any can go.