{"id":49314,"date":"2022-11-12T22:55:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T21:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49314"},"modified":"2022-11-16T20:03:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T19:03:34","slug":"dallas-mid-air-collision-of-a-b-17-flying-fortress-bomber-and-a-wwii-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/12\/dallas-mid-air-collision-of-a-b-17-flying-fortress-bomber-and-a-wwii-fighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas: mid-air collision of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and a P-63 Kingcobra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tragedy at the Dallas, Texas Air Show: Two World War II-era planes have collided in mid-air during an airshow.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/13\/this-was-the-last-takeoff-of-the-b-17-texas-raiders-bomber-that-crashed-in-dallas\/\">This was the last takeoff of the B-17 'Texas Raiders' bomber that crashed in Dallas<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/11\/just-like-old-times-p-51-mustang-fighters-escorting-a-b-17-bomber\/\">Just like old times: P-51 Mustang fighters escorting a B-17 bomber<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The planes that have been involved in this serious accident have been <strong>a Boeing B-17G-95-DL Flying Fortress bomber<\/strong>, the \"Texas Raiders\" (with construction number 77235, serial number 44-83872 and civil registration N7227C), <strong>and a Bell Bell P-63F-1-BE Kingcobra fighter<\/strong>, serial number 43-11719 and civil registration N6763. Both belong to the Commemorative Air Force, a private entity that maintains historic aircraft in airworthy condition. You can see a video of the collision here, in which <strong>the P-63 is seen colliding with the central part of the fuselage of the B-17, breaking its tail and both falling to the ground.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"margin:20px 0 20px 0;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a0\ufe0f GRAPHIC VIDEO: A mid-air collision involving two planes near the Dallas Executive Airport, today. The accident took place during the Wings Over Dallas WWII Airshow at 1:25 p.m., according to Dallas Fire-Rescue. A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOX4?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FOX4<\/a> viewer took this video. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOX4?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FOX4<\/a> is working for more details. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jdA6Cpb9Ot\">pic.twitter.com\/jdA6Cpb9Ot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Sentendrey (@DavidSFOX4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidSFOX4\/status\/1591522623376211968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>In this other video we can see the collision more clearly:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"margin:20px 0 20px 0;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Air show in Dallas just now, B17 and small aircraft collide. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8UEsMk6lkX\">pic.twitter.com\/8UEsMk6lkX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud835\udd2a\ud835\udd26\ud835\udd21\ud835\udd31\ud835\udd22\ud835\udd2f\ud835\udd2a\ud835\udd30 \ud835\udd2d\ud835\udd22\ud835\udd2d\ud835\udd22 (@Faucisux) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Faucisux\/status\/1591525453407588352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>A third video in which the collision is seen more clearly:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"margin:20px 0 20px 0;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"sr\" dir=\"ltr\">\u0415 \u043e\u0432\u0430 \u0435 \u0458\u0435\u0437\u0438\u0432\u043e <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dallas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Dallas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/B17?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#B17<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3SZfMJon3D\">pic.twitter.com\/3SZfMJon3D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tochka U \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddfa (@avalsiniarku) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/avalsiniarku\/status\/1591543303509790720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>A fourth video, of those I have found so far, is the one that best shows what happened:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Boeing B-17 and Bell P-63 Kingcobra planes collided at Dallas airshow and crashed\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3zuiDpBhCvw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidSFOX4\/status\/1591529843602391040\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has confirmed the collision between the B-17 and the P-63<\/a>, pointing out that the number of victims of the accident is still unknown. It seems highly unlikely that any of the occupants of the two crashed planes survived.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The B-17 \"Texas Raiders\" was built in 1944 <\/strong>and delivered to the United States Army Air Forces on July 12, 1945, being transferred a few days later to the US Navy to serve as a PB-1W maritime patrol aircraft. It was withdrawn from service on August 25, 1955. It was purchased by the Commemorative Air Force for $50,000 in 1967. <strong>It was one of only 10 B-17s still airworthy of 46 aircraft preserved to date today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The P-63F was built in 1943<\/strong>. Only two units of this variant of the P-63 were built. On September 13, 1943, it was delivered to the United States Army Air Forces, flying only 24.1 hours. It was withdrawn from service in 1946 and sold to a private individual. It was purchased by the Commemorative Air Force in 1995. <strong>It was one of only 4 P-63s that were still airworthy out of 14 that were still in existence today, and the only P-63F that was preserved..<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UPDATED 11:33 PM CET: According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/12\/planes-collide-over-wings-over-dallas-air-show\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Post<\/a>, <strong>six people would have died as a result of this accident.<\/strong> Rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED 11-13-2022 6:48 p.m.: I have corrected the data of the crashed P-63, since they were incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Main photo: Kevin Hong.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragedy at the Dallas, Texas Air Show: Two World War II-era planes have collided in mid-air during an airshow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,11546],"tags":[17834,17816,7133,7493,17817,17835,4522,10431],"class_list":["post-49314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-military-aviation","tag-b-17-texas-raiders","tag-bell-p-63-kingcobra","tag-boeing-b-17-flying-fortress","tag-commemorative-air-force","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-executive-airport","tag-texas","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}