Wings Over Dallas crash: Video shows sky FULL of planes before horrifying fatal collision
DALLAS, TEXAS: Two antique airplanes crashed in midair on the afternoon of November 12, scattering wreckage and bursting into flames that sent a column of thick, black smoke into the sky. The number of passengers on board the airplane at the time of the disaster was not immediately known. A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra collided at Dallas Executive Airport during the Wings Over Dallas display at around 1.20 pm, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Around eight miles southwest of downtown Dallas, at the airfield along US Highway 67 and Hampton Road in Red Bird, dozens of Dallas Fire-Rescue trucks and law enforcement officers arrived to tend to the disaster.
Daily Mail reports that two of the former members of the Allied Pilots Association, the union that represents American Airlines pilots, were listed as being on the B-17's crew, according to a tweet from the organization. The pilots on board were Len Root and Terry Barker. Hank Coates, CEO of Commemorative Air Force, stated that a P-63 is a single-pilot aircraft and a B-17 typically has a crew of four to five people, but he did not confirm the number of personnel on board the aircraft. No paying passengers were on the aircraft at the time, according to Coates, whose organization arranged the air show.
