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Snapped while flying directly above runway 7-25, this click is a capture of the main terminal (named in honor of Howard Cannon) and Concourses "B" (lower) and "C" of Reno Tahoe International.
The surface parking lot seen in the lower left center of this picture (directly below the three-story parking structure) is where the terrible crash of N821ET, a Piper, occurred about 5 months ago on Sunday, September 11 (2016). The P28R, with three on board, had just taken off from runway 25 when it failed to continue its climb, veered to the right, and impacted into that parking lot (roughly about where the middle row of cars are parked in this shot). The Piper came within 600 feet from striking the main terminal building, and there are some of us who feel that the pilot saw his craft was heading toward the terminal and as his last action brought the plane down in the lot instead. Tragically, there were no survivors in the Piper. No people on the ground were injured or struck, but 15 cars were heavily damaged or destroyed.
N821ET was departing for a flight to KSQL (San Carlos, CA). FlightAware still displays its final flight plan from RNO to SQL and even shows it departing RNO just seconds before the fatal crash.