Wings Over Dallas Mid-Air Collision 12 Nov. 2022 — Transcript

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1. 0:00another huge loss for the warbird
2. 0:02community today and a tragedy that
3. 0:04struck at the Wings Over Dallas air show
4. 0:08put on by the commemorative Air Force a
5. 0:11p-63 king cobra collided with the B-17
6. 0:16and from all the video footage I've seen
7. 0:18online which I'm not going to replay
8. 0:19here it looks like the p-63 king cobra
9. 0:22T-Bone the B-17 right at the trailing
10. 0:25edge of the wing and fuselage
11. 0:28that's not a B-17 that's a c47
12. 0:32so more questions than answers at this
13. 0:35point
14. 0:36was this during the air show were they
15. 0:39giving rides in the B-17 we have no idea
16. 0:41the number of fatalities at this time
17. 0:44who was flying the p-63 what was the air
18. 0:47boss's plan at that point that the
19. 0:49accident occurred from what little I've
20. 0:51seen on the videos it looks like the
21. 0:53high-speed aircraft a number of
22. 0:55high-speed single-engine aircraft p-51s
23. 0:57and such were flying a inside left-hand
24. 1:00pattern and it looked to me like the
25. 1:02B-17 was flying an outside much slower
26. 1:05pattern and it looked to me as if the
27. 1:07p63 was outside of or overshooting his
28. 1:11inside pattern and ran into the B-17 or
29. 1:14was in the B-17 in the wrong position
30. 1:16it's too hard and too early to tell yet
31. 1:19at this point as to what exactly
32. 1:22happened what transpired
33. 1:24so we need to know from the air boss
34. 1:26what was the plan for that part of the
35. 1:28show
36. 1:30and how these two aircraft
37. 1:32ended up colliding
38. 1:35that's all we know at this point we'll
39. 1:37have more soon thanks for your support
40. 1:39see you here