Federal authorities have released an initial report about the midair collision at a Dallas air show that killed six people earlier this month. Although it...
Recorded audio from the air show’s radio transmission provided insight into the crews’ final communications.
Just before the collision, the air show’s air boss was directing a three-aircraft fighter formation that included the P-63 and a five-ship bomber formation that included the B-17. The air boss instructed both formations to travel southwest of the runway before returning to the air show’s designated performance area.
The fighters were told to proceed near the 500-foot show line, while the bombers were to travel along the 1,000-foot show line — the distances that aircraft could be from the show’s audience. The report says no altitude maneuvers were discussed before the flight or while the planes were in the air. When the fighter formation approached the performance area, the report says, the P-63 was in a left bank and collided with the left side of the B-17.. Lana Ferguson joined The Dallas Morning News after reporting in South Carolina's Lowcountry for The Island Packet & Beaufort Gazette newspapers. She graduated from the University of Mississippi where she studied journalism and Southern studies. She's a Virginia native but her work has taken her all over the U.S.
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