Sadly this week has seen the loss of a B17g flying fortress and a Bell P63f kingcobra in a mid air collison over Dallas executive airport.
Video of the accident shows the P63f hitting the B17 behind the wing and cuttng the aircraft in half, both planes flying low in a flypast fall to the ground with the loss of all 6 abord both aircraft.
The video show the P63f turning in to formate with the B17 but doesn't seem to turn out in time and hit it. It's impossible to say from the video if this was caused by the P60 misjudging things, a malfunction of some sort (controls jaming?) or maybe the pilot just lost sight of the B17 or suffered some medical issue. Either way the B17 had no chance to take any avoiding action.
The NTSB will be investigating and determine what actually happened. Sadly 6 people enjoying what they do and giving the public a chance to see historic aircraft have lost their lives. Our thoughts for their families.
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