Veteran pilot Lee Behel was killed in a crash at Reno on Monday afternoon during a qualifying heat for the National Championship Air Races. Behel, 64, from San Jose, California, was flying an experimental GP-5 racing airplane. "This was a single-plane incident and no other pilots or spectators were injured," the race organizers said in a statement on Tuesday. Behel was one of the founders of the Sport Class and its current president. He also was a retired U.S. Air Force pilot. The accident is under investigation by the FAA and NTSB.
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