Another lawsuit has been filed in the Sept. 16 Reno Air Race crash that killed 11 people, including the pilot, and injured nearly 70 other spectators, the Reno Gazette Journal is reporting.
The suit was filed earlier this month by a law firm on behalf of Gerry de Treville of Ukiah, Calif., a spectator who lost his eye when a vintage plane crashed during the Reno National Championship Air Races. The suit claims the air racing organization was negligent and the aircraft was too dangerous to fly so close to spectators.
So far this is the second suit to be filed.
The family of deceased man Craig Salerno, 50, of Friendswood, Texas, a dispatcher for Continental Airlines and father of two, is suing race organizer Reno Air Racing Association, pilot James Leeward’s racing team and corporation, and two enterprises that modified the plane to increase its speed.
According to witness accounts, the P-51 Mustang nose-dived into a section of white VIP box seats, and the plane flown by 74-year-old veteran racer and Hollywood stunt pilot Leeward disentigrated when it hit the ground.
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