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MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Video footage regarding the level clang that killed a lone aviator conscionable retired of Los Banos has been released.
Gene Lab changeable the video. It shows the aftermath conscionable minutes aft a tiny level from San Jose crashed into a tract extracurricular of Los Banos.
“I wasn’t expecting to spot a crumbled portion of metallic that had fundamentally fallen from the entity chemoreceptor dived into the ground,” said Leb.
He says the aviator of the level was circling successful the aerial for an hr earlier crashing astir 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
During that time, helium says Los Banos Police were clearing imaginable landing spots.
“I judge it was a pop-warner shot practice, and Los Banos Police went retired determination and evacuated the full ballpark; they didn't cognize what was coming."
Fifteen minutes aft the level crashed, Leb and the archetypal responders arrived astatine the clang site.
“When I got there, they were mounting up transgression country tape,” Leb said.
Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke arrived by chopper earlier witnesses were moved further distant from the scene.
The individuality of the aviator who was killed has not been released. The NTSB is handling the investigation.
