Authorities have identified seven of the 10 people who were killed in a plane crash at an air show in Nevada last Friday. The names include the pilot, Jimmy Leeward who was 74 years old. Leeward lost control of his plane before it smashed into a crowd of onlookers. Seven of the ten died on the tarmac while the other three of the ten died later on at hospitals. Nearly 70 people were injured. Besides the pilot who was killed, the other six people are Joseph Wogan from Arizona, George and Wendy Hewitt from Washington state, Regina Bynum from Texas, Sharon Stewart from Nevada, and Gregory Morcom from Washington state. The plane from the crash was a plane from the WWII era and it was reported to have data and video recording devices that they can use to detirmin what exactly happened.source: http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/19/us/nevada-plane-crash/index.html?hpt=us_c2
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I was watching a video of an on looker yesterday on the news. When I saw the plane go upside down I knew something bad was going to happen. I feel terribley sorry for the people that lost there family member or spouses, but its better the 10 died and 70 injured then 10 injured and 70 die. The pilot was expierenced enough so I think his gages went wacko and he lost control. I think if he had just a lil control he wouldve tried to put the plane down somewhere where there were no onlookers so that noone got hurt.
I heard about this today this morning. That's just crazy and i feel bad for all those families that lost love ones and have family injured. I don't think the pilot ment to do this it was just an accident.
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