Probe underway over midair crash at Dallas

HOUSTON, Nov 14 (Bernama) — Investigations are underway over a midair crash which has left six people dead after two WWII aircraft collided during an air show on Saturday in the US city of Dallas, authorities said on Sunday.  “According to our Dallas County Medical Examiner, there was a total of 6 fatalities from Saturday’s Wings over Dallas air show incident,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins tweeted. Videos on Twitter showed that following the collision, the two planes rapidly crashed to the ground, causing a large fire and plumes of black smoke, reported Xinhua. Jenkins said authorities are continuing to work to identify the victims. “A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra collided and crashed at the Wings Over Dallas Airshow at Dallas Executive Airport in Texas around 1.20 pm local time Saturday,” said a Federal Aviation Administration statement after the crash. Hank Coates, president of the Commemorative Air Force, which owned the planes and put on the airshow, told local reporters that a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber typically has a crew of four to five people, and a P-63 Kingcobra fighter plane has a single pilot. Coates said no paying customers were on the aircraft, adding that highly trained volunteers fly their planes, often retired pilots. Federal aviation authorities are currently leading the investigation.  — BERNAMA Bernama is the trusted source of reliable real-time comprehensive and accurate news for both the public and media practitioners. Our news is published at www.bernama.com ; BERNAMA TV on: Astro Channel 502, unifi TV Channel 631, MYTV Channel 121 IFLIX; and Bernama Radio broadcasting locally on FM93.9 in Klang Valley, Johor (FM107.5), Kota Kinabalu (FM107.9) and Kuching (FM100.9). Follow us on social media : Facebook : @bernamaofficial, @bernamatv, @bernamaradio Twitter : @bernama.com, @BernamaTV, @bernamaradio Instagram : @bernamaofficial, @bernamatvofficial, @bernamaradioofficial TikTok : @bernamaofficial
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