The North American P-51 Mustang had ... into a staple of the Reno Air Races. First piloted by a United Airlines pilot and former USAF test pilot Clay Lacy, this Mustang owed its new name to ...

SPECTATOR NIGHTMARE: A World War II era P-51 Mustang disintegrates after crashing into the grandstand at a Reno, Nv. air show yesterday. A Reno, Nev., air race turned into a bloody horror show ...

Nearly four months after a P-51 Mustang veered out of control and slammed into spectators at the Reno, Nevada, air races – killing 11 people, injuring scores of others and jeopardizing the ...

Officials at the National Championship Air Race said a mechanical failure may have caused the P-51 Mustang Galloping Ghost ... into the viewer grandstands. Reno Air Races president Mike Houghton ...

Sixty-two years ago, a P-51 Mustang roared across the ... ordered military planes out of air shows and air races. In the 1960s, Reno used an old military base in the middle of the desert to ...

RENO, Nev. — The World War II-era plane that plummeted into an air-race crowd like a missile bore little resemblance to its original self. It was rebuilt for speed, if not for stability.

The scene of a Reno air race crash that killed nine people reveals ... a strange gurgling engine noise from above before the P-51 Mustang, dubbed The Galloping Ghost, pitched violently upward ...

But it's not exactly business as usual at the 49th annual National Championship Air Races a year after Jimmy Leeward lost control of his P-51 Mustang and it slammed into box seats on the edge of ...

A week after the catastrophic crash at the Reno Air Races ... dollar racing machine into an unguided missile. Here's how, and why, we think the accident unfolded: The P-51, the plane Jimmy Leeward ...

A P-51 Mustang has crashed into the crowd during the Reno Air Races in Nevada killing at least three people and injuring up to 75. The vintage World War II aircraft - a P-51D type Mustang ...

RENO, Nevada — The scene of Reno's air race crash that killed nine people ... strange gurgling engine noise from above before the P-51 Mustang, dubbed The Galloping Ghost, pitched violently ...

Mark Rosekind, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said investigators examining debris from the fighter, a P-51 Mustang ... Air Races and Air Show at Reno-Stead Airport on ...