3 With Ties To North Sound Killed In Reno Air Race Crash

Three people with ties to Washington state were killed after a stunt pilot crashed at a Nevada air race Friday, killing at least nine and injuring dozens more.

Washoe County is still trying to identify all the dead, but family and friends say at least three people that lived in Washington have died in the accident.

George and Wendy Hewitt, who lived in Bellingham before moving to Arizona when they retired, were sitting in box seats with members of a local group called the Cascade Warbirds.

Dave Desmon, a friend of the Hewitts, was sitting a few feet from the couple when a World War II-era P-51 Mustang lost control and hit the ground. Desmon spoke by phone with KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Alison Grande.

"It rolled to the right, back over the top of the crowd, then right down towards us," said Desmon, of Everett. "I was pretty much looking at the spinner of an airplane coming at me at 500 mph and trying to decide which way it was moving so we could move the opposite direction."

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It crashed 6 feet from Desmon.

Desmon said family members reminded him that George and Wendy Hewitt had an extraordinary relationship.

"You know, separately, they were amazing, together, they were incredible,” said Desmon.

Other members of the Cascade Warbirds are injured. Members of the group -- which preserves and displays old military airplanes and honors the veterans who flew them -- went to the Reno air races together.

George Hewitt was a captain of Boeing 777s for Air Canada. He recently retired, and the couple moved to Arizona.

Family members say 47-year-old Greg Morcom of Marysville was also killed instantly.

He went to the air races with his brother and father.