@bruzeno.creates: 🚨 STORYTIME: The deadliest US air show crash in 50 years ✈️💥 📍 September 16, 2011. Reno, Nevada 🇺🇸 The National Championship Air Races. 50K+ people watching 👀 74-year-old pilot Jimmy Leeward is flying a WW2 P-51 Mustang called "Galloping Ghost" 💀 It’s modified to race at 500+ mph 😮💨 3rd lap. Turn 8. 💔 Something SNAPS. A tiny piece called the "trim tab" breaks off the tail ⚙️❌ Instantly, the plane pitches UP at 17 Gs. That’s 17x gravity 😵 He blacks out instantly. The plane rolls left ⬅️ then DIVES straight down at 400+ mph ⬇️💨 It misses the main grandstand by 100 feet 😳... but SLAMS into the VIP box seats 💥🩸 Impact = instant 💀 11 people dead including the pilot 🕊️ 69+ injured 🤕 Wreckage flew 30 yards 😱 NTSB later said: the plane used reused parts + was pushed beyond its limits 📉⚠️ 3 seconds. That’s all it took ⏱️ Air shows are thrilling ✨ But physics doesn’t care 😬 This is the 3rd deadliest air show disaster in US history 📊 Would YOU still sit front row? 👀👇 #Aviation #AirShow #usa🇺🇸 #BlueAngels
