Pilots of these so-called warbirds are all professionals with many thousands of flight hours and extensive experience on the respective vintage aircraft. That is why former bombers, as was customary at the time, are presented with at least one escort fighter from the same era. The single-engine P-63 Kingcobra, on the other hand, always only has room for the pilot.Īt air shows with aircraft from the second World War these are often presented in a formation consisting of several machines at the same time in order to give spectators the most realistic possible impression of the time they were used at the time. Usually the Boeing B-17, nicknamed “Flying Fortress” because of its robustness, operated by a crew of three to five people, including two pilots at all times. The investigation into the accident continued. “According to the Dallas County Coroner, there are a total of six fatalities from yesterday’s incident at the Wings over Dallas air show,” he wrote on Twitter. The judge responsible for the district, Clay Jenkins, said on Sunday, citing the forensic experts. The air show was canceled immediately after the accident. Neither the crew members of the B-17 nor the pilot in the cockpit of the P-63 had a chance of surviving. The former bomber immediately broke in two, and the P-63 was completely destroyed in the collision. A 1940s propeller-driven fighter, a P-63 Kingcobra, rammed a four-engined bomber from that era, a Boeing B-17. Mhonor thousands of spectators of the “Wings over dallas” Airshow in Dallas, Texas witnessed a tragic accident on Saturday when two vintage planes collided during a demonstration.
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