Mike Mangold, who won the Red Bull Air Race World Championship twice in 2005 and 2007 was killed in a L-39 accident on Dec. 6.
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Eye witnesses say the L-39 flown by the former USAF F-4 pilot exploded on the runway at Apple Valley Airport after its engine caught fire.