re: B-17 collides/crashes with another plane at Dallas air show.

Looks like the fighter plane didn’t see the B17 coming at him from below while he was banking left.

Loss of life is obviously tragic and the most important thing, but the loss of one of the last still flying B17s is sad too.

The smaller plane (P-51??) was in a hard banked turn and the underside of his plane was possibly obscuring the view. Not sure who controls airspace at an airshow - ATC or the show operators - but someone should have been spotting and radioed to help keep those planes apart, both altitude and across the ground.

Unless you’re the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds there should not be 2 planes in the air at the same time.

Well that’s a crappy way to die

Those on the B-17 had maybe three seconds to live after being struck. Hardly even time enough to understand what just happened before the ground took them out. At least their terror was as brief as possible. Very sad this happened.

There are barely a half-dozen or so B-17s still flying of less than 50 complete aircraft still in existence. I saw one flying in St. Louis about 10 years ago.

Allahakbar!