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An American flag and the POW flag fly at half-staff as a grandstand is shown in background and a plane rests in the foreground at the Reno Air Races in Reno, Nev., Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011. The Reno Air Races were canceled after a fatal plane crash on Friday.
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A P-51 Mustang airplane is shown upside down right before crashing into the stands at the Reno Air show on Friday, Sept. 16, 2011, in Reno Nevada.
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A P-51 Mustang airplane is shown right before crashing at the Reno Air show on Friday, Sept. 16, 2011, in Reno Nevada. The plane plunged into the stands at the event.
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The P-51 Mustang airplane moments before crashing.
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A P-51 Mustang airplane crashes into the edge of the grandstands at the Reno Air show on Friday, Sept. 16, 2011 in Reno, Nevada. The World War II-era fighter plane flown by a veteran Hollywood stunt pilot Jimmy Leeward plunged Friday into the grandstands during the popular air race creating a horrific scene strewn with smoking debris.
AP Photo/Ward Howes
A P-51 Mustang airplane crashes into the edge of the grandstands at the Reno Air show on Friday, Sept. 16, 2011, in Reno, Nevada. The World War II-era fighter plane flown by a veteran Hollywood stunt pilot Jimmy Leeward plunged Friday into the edge of the grandstands during the popular air race creating a horrific scene strewn with smoking debris.
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A World War II era fighter plane plunged during a popular annual air show, injuring at least 75 spectators and leaving a horrific scene of bodies and wreckage on Sept. 16, 2011.
Andy Barron,AP Photo/Reno Gazette-Journal
Debris from the plane that crashed at the Reno Air Races is scattered in front of the grandstand at the Stead Airport on Sept. 16, 2011, in Reno, Nev. A World War II era fighter plane plunged into the grandstands Friday during a popular annual air show, injuring at least 75 spectators and leaving a horrific scene of bodies and wreckage.
AP Photo/The Reno Gazette-Journal, Marilyn Newton
Longtime Reno Air Race pilot Jimmy Leeward with his P51 Mustang, "The Galloping Ghost." A spokesman for Reno's National Championship Air Races says the P-51 Mustang that crashed into a box seat area at the front of the grandstand Friday, Sept. 16, 2011, at the air race was piloted by Leeward. An official reported Friday that Leeward, 74, of Ocala, Fla., was killed in the crash.
AP Photo/The Reno Gazette-Journal, Liz Margerum
Medics help injured bystanders out of a helicopter into Renown Medical Center after a plane crashed into the crowd at the Reno National Championship Air Races Friday, Sept. 16, 2011, in Reno, Nev.
AP Photo/The Reno Gazette-Journal, Liz Margerum
Medics help injured bystanders out of a helicopter into Renown Medical Center after a plane crashed into the crowd at the Reno National Championship Air Races Friday, Sept. 16, 2011 in Reno, Nev. A World War II era fighter plane plunged into the grandstands Friday during a popular annual air show, injuring at least 75 spectators and leaving a horrific scene of bodies and wreckage.
AP Photo/The Reno Gazette-Journal, Liz Margerum
Medics wheel a man into Renown Medical Center after a plane crashed into the crowd at the Reno National Championship Air Races at the Reno National Championship Air Races, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011, in Reno, Nev. A World War II era fighter plane plunged into the grandstands Friday during a popular annual air show, injuring at least 75 spectators and leaving a horrific scene of bodies and wreckage.
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People gather at the scene where a World War II fighter plane crashed into the stands at the Reno Air Races Friday, Sept. 16, 2011, in Stead, Nev. Witnesses said the plane spiraled suddenly out of control and appeared to disintegrate upon impact. Reno Air Races president and CEO Mike Houghton says that among the dead is pilot Jimmy Leeward, 74, of Ocala, Fla.
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A crowd gathers around debris after a P-51 Mustang airplane crashed into the stands at the Reno Air show on Friday, Sept. 16, 2011, in Reno, Nev.
AP Photo/Cathleen Allison
A vintage World War II-era fighter plane plunged into the grandstands Friday during a popular annual air show, killing at least three people, injuring more than 50 spectators at the Reno Air Races in Stead, Nev., on Friday, Sept. 16, 2011.
AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli
Lori Juhl displays a piece of the wreckage of a World War II-era P-51 aircraft that crashed during the Reno Air Race n Reno, Nev., Friday, Sept. 16, 2011. Juhl said she was about 100 feet from the site where the vintage plane crashed and found the fragment by her purse. The pilot of the plane, Jimmy Leward, 74, and two others on the ground were confirmed dead; 56 others were transported to local hospitals. The cause of the crash is unknown.
AP Photo/Kevin Clifford
Mike Houghton, president of the Reno Air Racing Association, left, holds a news conference after a vintage World War II-era fighter plane plunged into the grandstands during a popular annual air show, killing at least three people, injuring more than 50 spectators at the Reno Air Races in Stead, Nev., on Friday, Sept. 16, 2011.
Tim O'Brien,AP Photo/Grass Valley Union
Spectators and debris are seen after a P-51 Mustang airplane crashed at the Reno Air show on Friday, Sept. 16, 2011, in Reno, Nev. The plane plunged into the stands at the event in what an official described as a "mass casualty situation."
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