Air show crash in Dallas

Just saw that a B 17 Got hit by a small plane… both planes down no survivors…RIP to all involved…

 

Currently live on CNN

 

https://twitter.com/JasonWhitely/status/1591541681798668291?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1591541681798668291|twgr^83e1399279bbe6c0118b126d78465948ce325289|twcon^s1_c10&ref_url=https://d-4126302713575635000.ampproject.net/2210272257000/frame.html

So sad

 

Man, that was awful. Looks like pilot error on the smaller plane and, so, the B-17 had no chance of escaping its fate. The spectators in the foreground were fortunate the crash did not happen just milliseconds earlier.

 

Interesting history on the smaller plane, a P-39 Aircobra. Was not aware of that air fighter model.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/t...war-ii-fighter-was-the-star-the-russian-22152

 

RIP.

 

The news channel said the smaller plane was used by the Russians in WWll.

 

Lend lease. P39 was mid engined and by start of war was already behind the technology.

 

How many B 17's are there left ? Can't be many.

 

Saw the video on Twitter RIP

 

It was a P-63 Kingcobra, not P-39.

 

I believe that there are now 8 flying B17s left after this crash

 

Many surviving examples are painted to represent actual planes that flew in combat. Today, 45 planes survive in complete form, 9 of which are airworthy, and 38 of which reside in the United States.

Unfortunately I think that changed today….

 

Pilot error? Looked more like it was intentional, if I didn't know any better.

 

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRx35Td9/

Crazy different view.

 

RIP to the pilots and crew.

Appears to be B -17 Sentimental Journey that went down

 

In the shot I saw, he was banked over pretty hard and likely couldn't see the B17 until it was too late.

 

You can't see out of the cockpit of the p63 at the angle the B17 was at.

 

Ouch. RIP

hearing the kid say “was that supposed to happen?” Broke my heart a little bit.

 

Multiple angles. From the first video it looked like the pilot wasn’t looking where he was flying. From other views he was pulling up into the bank and the nose covered the b17 the entire time. Man that sucks….