Graham said five people were in the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and a pilot was the only person in the P-63 Kingcobra fighter plane. The planes collided and crashed about 1:20 p.m., the FAA said. The Federal Aviation Administration also was going to investigate, officials said. Rowe, of Hilliard, Ohio, did air shows several times a year because he fell in love with WWII aircraft, Keller said. Rowe, a member of the Ohio Wing Civil Air Patrol, was a crew chief on the B-17, his brother-in-law Andy Keller told The Associated Press on Sunday.
He later worked for American Airlines for 36 years before retiring in 2020, Mizani said. "We’re grieving.”īarker was an Army veteran who flew helicopters during his military service. “It’s definitely a big loss in our community," he said. Mizani said Barker’s death has been difficult for his town of 50,000, where many of the residents know each other. Mizani said he learned of Barker’s death from his family. Dallas Fire-Rescue said there were no reports of injuries on the ground.Īrmin Mizani, the mayor of Keller, Texas, said Terry Barker, a retired pilot who lived in Keller, was in the B-17 bomber that crashed.
Authorities are continuing work to identify the victims, he said.
The crash claimed six lives, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins tweeted Sunday, citing the county medical examiner. The company that owned the planes flying in the Wings Over Dallas show has had other crashes in its more than 60-year history. The crash came three years after the crash of a bomber in Connecticut that killed seven, and amid ongoing concern about the safety of air shows involving older warplanes. “One of the things we would probably most likely be trying to determine is why those aircraft were co-altitude in the same air space at the same time," Michael Graham, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said at a news conference. Several videos posted on social media showed the fighter plane flying into the bomber. They refused to be taken to the hospital.DALLAS – A national transportation official probing the cause of a midair crash of two historic military planes during an air show that left six people dead said Sunday that one of the key questions for investigators is why the aircraft were seemingly sharing the same space just before impact.Ī World War II-era bomber and a fighter plane collided and crashed to the ground in a ball of flames on Saturday, leaving crumpled wreckage in a grassy area inside the Dallas Executive Airport perimeter, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the city’s downtown. Two people were removed from the plane by the fire department and were treated for minor injuries. According to MFMD, the landing gear failed, and the plane broke in half behind the cockpit, causing it to crash nose-down before coming to a stop on the runway. However, the Warbird crash-landed towards the end of the runway. Firefighters at the airport said one of the planes landed without incident, and a second plane did a fly-by with the landing gear stowed. MFMD says three planes were flying in formation mid-air during the incident.
One of the planes was an Air Force Warbird. MESA (3TV/CBS 5) - Officials say two planes flying over Mesa collided mid-air, causing one to crash land at Falcon Field Municipal airport Friday afternoon.Ī spokesperson with the Mesa Fire and Medical Department said they received initial reports of two planes declaring an emergency landing at Falcon Field after reporting they had experienced a mid-air collision around 12:45 p.m.
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