Sundays Sport Class crash video is currently on the front page of LiveLeak.com. The pilot is very lucky he survived with only minor injuries. Looks like the plane does 1 cartwheel and is broken into pieces 4-5 big pieces.
Can someone edit this video by slowing it down and enlarging it and posting it on youtube where we can watch it in slow motion?
What's the history on the accident?
Click the link for the video http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e58_1285076147
Just found this:
Officials say mechanical difficulties and high winds were to blame for plane crash Sunday at the National Championship Air Races at the Reno Stead Airport.
The Thunder Mustang piloted by George Giboney went down during the final lap of the Super Sport Gold championship race, according to a publicist for the event.
Giboney says he heard his plane -"Rapid Travel"- misfire a couple of times, and then the engine cut out and stopped completely. He called a "mayday," and when he attempted to land he hit the runway and bounced. That's when a wind gust took the plane off course and into the dirt, the plane then hit a bump and shot up into the air. The plane began to cartwheel and the plane came almost completely apart as it tumbled.
Giboney got out of the plane without help and, was attended to by onsite emergency personnel, that examined him at the Reno Air Race medical facility. He was released shortly thereafter. He suffered cuts on his arms and legs.
Can someone edit this video by slowing it down and enlarging it and posting it on youtube where we can watch it in slow motion?
What's the history on the accident?
Click the link for the video http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e58_1285076147
Just found this:
Officials say mechanical difficulties and high winds were to blame for plane crash Sunday at the National Championship Air Races at the Reno Stead Airport.
The Thunder Mustang piloted by George Giboney went down during the final lap of the Super Sport Gold championship race, according to a publicist for the event.
Giboney says he heard his plane -"Rapid Travel"- misfire a couple of times, and then the engine cut out and stopped completely. He called a "mayday," and when he attempted to land he hit the runway and bounced. That's when a wind gust took the plane off course and into the dirt, the plane then hit a bump and shot up into the air. The plane began to cartwheel and the plane came almost completely apart as it tumbled.
Giboney got out of the plane without help and, was attended to by onsite emergency personnel, that examined him at the Reno Air Race medical facility. He was released shortly thereafter. He suffered cuts on his arms and legs.
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