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19 January 2012
The crowd gasps as the wayward air-race plane banks ominously toward the viewing stands. Moments later, the 6-ton World War II P-51D fighter plummets to the ground, killing 10 spectators and pilot Jimmy Leeward, and injuring 74. The crash on 16 September last year at the National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada, threw the future of the 47-year-old competition into question. Watch a dramatic view of the 2011 Reno plane crash...
Find out what went wrong on that fatal day, as well as how air racing can be safer, in the February 2012 issue of Popular Mechanics - on sale on 23 January.
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