10 dead after two US vintage air race crashes

RENO – The death toll in the crash of a vintage second World War fighter plane near the grandstand at a Nevada air race has risen…

RENO – The death toll in the crash of a vintage second World War fighter plane near the grandstand at a Nevada air race has risen to nine, authorities said.

In Martinsburg, West Virginia, another vintage US military aircraft went down in a fireball at an air show on Saturday, killing the pilot. There were no other casualties.

In the Reno crash, two people who died of injuries at hospitals and seven died on the tarmac following the Friday night crash. More than 50 people were injured.

– (Reuters)

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