DALLAS — Now that the National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary report on the deadly Nov. 12 collision between World War II-era aircraft at Dallas Executive Airport, investigators will work diligently to pin down what exactly went wrong during the fateful air show that ended in the deaths of six people.
The NTSB report, published Wednesday, confirmed what was shown in several videos taken by spectators: A Bell P-63F Kingcobra fighter banked into a single-file bomber formation, colliding with a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and sending both aircraft plummeting to the ground. Six people — the lone pilot in the P-63 and five people in the B-17 — were killed. Nobody on the ground was injured.
The Commemorative Air Force, which owned the planes involved in the crash, identified those who died as Terry Barker, Leonard “Len” Root, Curtis “Curt” Rowe, Craig Hutain, Dan Ragan and Kevin “K5″ Michels
