A terrible accident at the Commemorative Air Force’s Wings Over Dallas Show occurred yesterday.
Fox 4: Historic military planes collide in mid-air crash at Dallas Executive Airport
The B-17 Texas Raider, seen in better days above, was lost with all on board.
The P-63 Kingcobra that struck the B-17 was also lost with its pilot.
Freom looking at the various videos of the collision, it looks like the P-63 deviated from its own airshow lane and crossed into the B-17's airshow lane and hit it behind the wing, severing the rear fuselage leading to both planes having uncontrolled crashes. The NTSB investigation will probably provide more detail in time.
Given the angle of approach, The B-17 pilots most likely never saw it coming and had no chance to react, and had no chance at all to recover after the collision.
That makes six dead in a tragic accident, along with the loss of two irreplaceable historic aircraft.
4 comments:
P-63 pilot lost SA on the B-17. And they all died as a result.
Just saw this at Borepatch's place. What a tragedy...
Hey Aaron;
I agree with your assessment and totally sad to see.
Old NFO: Yep, it sure looks like he lost his position and the overall picture quite badly.
drjim: That it is.
MrGarabaldi: Yep, its very sad to see that kind of loss occur.
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