Federal Avaiation Authority in Lyon had said two planes have collided over the Nevada desert in the United States and both pilots died in the crash.
Ian Gregor, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman had reported that one single-engine (Cessna 170 ) and another experimental aircraft crashed in mid-air about in the early hours of Sunday, October 12, 2014.
The impact was reported to have occurred near Yerington in western Nevada, about 60 miles southeast of Reno, during an informal weekend fly-in at the dry lake bed.
According to Gregor , the circumstances of the collision has not been ascertained but the Lyon County Sheriff’s office says participants on the ground heard a sound a distance away and saw falling debris and smoke, sending them running or driving to the crash site.
The Reno Gazette-Journal reports that there were only pilots in both planes and there was no one on the ground that was reported to be injured.
