Report: No Altitude Advice Before Dallas Air Show Crash

Report: No Altitude Advice Before Dallas Air Show Crash
A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra collide in the midair during an airshow at Dallas Executive Airport in Dallas on Nov. 12, 2022. Larry Petterborg via AP
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DALLAS—Just before a midair collision that killed six at a Dallas air show, a group of historic fighter planes was told to fly ahead of a formation of bombers without any prior plan for coordinating altitude, according to a federal report released Wednesday. The report did not give a cause of the crash.

A P-63 Kingcobra fighter was banking left when it struck a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber behind the left wing during the Nov. 12 air show featuring World War II-era planes, the National Transportation Safety Board said in its preliminary findings. All six people aboard the planes—the pilot of the fighter and the bomber’s pilot, co-pilot and three crew members—died as both aircraft broke apart in flight, with the bomber catching fire and then exploding on impact.