Six people died in the crash of two historic military planes colliding mid-air at the Dallas air show.
Witnesses recount 'horrific' collision between B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, P-63 Kingcobra fighter planeA fire is seen after two historic military planes collided mid-air and crashed to the ground at a Dallas air show on Saturday.
"According to our Dallas County Medical Examiner, there are a total of 6 fatalities from yesterday's Wings over Dallas air show incident," Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins tweeted Sunday. He said authorities are continuing to work to identify the victims. Officials would not say how many people were on board the planes, but Hank Coates, president of the company that put on the airshow, said one of the planes — a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber — typically has a crew of four to five people. The other, a P-63 Kingcobra fighter plane, has a single pilot.No paying customers were on the aircraft, said Coates, of Commemorative Air Force, which also owned the planes. The aircraft are flown by highly trained volunteers, often retired pilots, he said.
The planes collided and crashed at about 1:20 p.m. local time, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. The collision occurred during the Commemorative Air Force Wings Over Dallas show.Victoria Yeager, the widow of famed air force test pilot Chuck Yeager and herself a pilot, was also at the show. She didn't see the collision, but did see the burning wreckage."We were just hoping they had all gotten out, but we knew they didn't," she said of those on board.
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