Poor planning and communication led to the deaths of six people in a 2022 mid-air plane collision, the National Transportation and Safety Board announced...
This image released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63F Kingcobra colliding at Dallas Executive Airport during the Wings over Dallas show in 2022.Poor planning and inadequate communication led to the deaths of six people in a 2022 mid-air plane collision, the National Transportation and Safety Board announced Monday.
The report caps two years of investigation by federal authorities into the incident, which has also spawned several pending civil lawsuits from relatives of the six people who died in the fiery collision.The crash occurred when two Word War II-era planes were completing a repositioning turn during the Wings Over Dallas airshow, killing the five people aboard a Boeing bomber and the sole occupant of a Bell fighter.
The news release did note that while a plan to “ensure vertical or lateral separation” of the planes was not discussed at the briefing, one was not required by regulations at the time.Julia is a breaking news reporter with the Dallas Morning News. She is a Louisiana native and a graduate of the University of Mississippi where she studied journalism and public policy. She previously covered education for Mississippi Today in Jackson, Miss.
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