Reno Air Races Sees Second Fatal Crash

By Don Cox, Reno Gazette-Journal A 48-year-old Wyoming land developer died in a jet plane crash Thursday, the second fatal accident in three days at the Reno National Championship Air Races.

[Sam]

What do you think's gonna happen if you crash in an event like this? It's not like Nascar where you just spin out and maybe hit the wall. The likelihood of death has to be 98%. Better have good life insurance!

[doobie]

do any of these idiots know how to fly ?

[ustuzou1]

Do idiots that go by the name of "doobie" know how to think?

[common sense]

AND they are still going to continue flying on Sat.----what is wrong with these people??????

[Elliott]

common sense wrote:

AND they are still going to continue flying on Sat.----what is wrong with these people??????

What is wrong with you? You can't tell a highly trained, highly motivated, living-on-the-edge pilot not to fly. They know the risks. For them pulling G's in a corner at 400mph is living life to the fullest. Who are we to say they can't do that if they want to?

[doobie]

do people named ustuzou1 have valid green cards ?

[rogeroppelt]

what a stupid sport. why not just enjoy flying. just like street racing, pretty soon you are going to crash.

[WLK]

To "common sense:" Air racing, car racing, boat racing, and so on are, to its entrants subject to the old instruction to learning equestrians. "Ok, she threw you! Now get back on and do it again." It is the rider's decision, not yours or mine, whether to go again. The alternative to flying/riding/driving/etc. again is to accept an inner defeat and abandon a dream.

Before the darts start flying, I certainly would not walk a tightwire between two skyscrapers but there are more than one man who does just that. I do not want someone telling me I must, and I surely don't approve of anyone telling them they cannot.

And to doobie (and others) I really am offended by the suggestion that someone who has the knowledge, experience training and sheer balls to even fly one of those jet racers close to the ground is classed as "idiot." How did you classify the late Evel Knievel? The olympic divers who launch from a platform 20 meters above the water? Or do all people who enjoy the thrill of "pushing the envelope" fall into the isiot class?

Just like to know.

[WLK]

Sorry, it was supposed to be "idiot" not "isiot" -- my old fingers and a little keyboard are a bad mix.

[Bubba Goldstein Lone Elk]

There is nothing quite as exilerating
as being shot at .... resulting in a Very rear "miss".

Same type thing applies here.

Life takes on a whole new meaning.

Some times you lose ... that is the part of the game.

But the trick is to Win ... it is like a drug high when you do.

You either understand it ... or you don't