See how two vintage military planes collide In midair during US air parade (Video)
During the United States air parade, two vintage military planes collided in midair.
A Bell P-63 Kingcobra and a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress collided over a Dallas air show at roughly 1:20 p.m., as seen in the gory video. on November 12, a Saturday.
Authorities reacted to the incident at Dallas Executive Airport, Jason Evans with Dallas Fire-Rescue, Federal Aviation Administration says.
According to Eric Johnson, the mayor of Dallas, it is yet unknown how many people were killed in the collision.
Two retired pilots who were previous union members were among those killed in the incident, according to the Allied Pilots Association, the labor union for American Airlines pilots.
Former members Terry Barker and Len Root were among the crew members on the B-17 Flying Fortress during the Wings Over Dallas airshow, the APA said in a tweet. The APA is also offering professional counseling services at their headquarters in Fort Worth following the incident.
“Our hearts go out to their families, friends, and colleagues past and present,” their tweet said.
There were more than 40 fire rescue units on scene after the collision, the agency’s active incidents page shows.
In a Saturday afternoon news conference, Hank Coates, president and CEO of the Commemorative Air Force, told reporters the B-17 “normally has a crew of four to five. That was what was on the aircraft,” while the P-63 is a “single-piloted fighter type aircraft.”
“I can tell you that it was normally crewed,” Coates said. “I cannot release the number of people in the manifest or the names on the manifest until I’m released to do so by the NTSB.”
The NTSB said on Saturday night that a go-team would be formed to look into the crash. The NTSB tweeted that Sunday is when the team is anticipated to arrive.
_“Member Michael Graham will serve as spokesperson on scene,” the tweet added.
“The maneuvers that they [the aircraft] were going through were not dynamic at all,” Coates noted. “It was what we call ‘Bombers on Parade’.”_
The B-17 was part of the collection of the Commemorative Air Force, nicknamed “Texas Raiders,” and had been hangered in Conroe, Texas near Houston. It was one of about 45 complete surviving examples of the model, only nine of which were airworthy.
The P-63 was even rarer. Some 14 examples are known to survive, four of which in the United States were airworthy, including one owned by the Commemorative Air Force.
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