The Dallas air show, vintage military planes clash in midair.

The Federal Aviation Administration said that a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra collided and crashed at the Wings Over Dallas airshow on Saturday about 1:20 p.m.

The Federal Aviation Administration said about Dallas air show

The Federal Aviation Administration said that a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra collided and crashed at the Wings Over Dallas airshow on Saturday about 1:20 p.m.

Later on Saturday afternoon, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson stated that the precise number of fatalities in the collision was still unknown.

Two retired pilots who were former union members were among those killed in the collision, according to the Allied Pilots Association, the labour union for American Airlines pilots.

APA talk about Dallas air show

According to a tweet from the APA, former members Terry Barker and Len Root were on the B-17 Flying Fortress crew during the Wings Over Dallas airshow. Following the event, the APA is also providing expert counselling services at their Fort Worth offices.

Their tweet said, “Our hearts go out to their families, friends, and coworkers past and present.”The agency’s active incidents page indicates that after the collision, there were over 40 fire rescue units on the scene.

Hank Coates, president and chief executive officer of the Commemorative Air Force, said the B-17 “often has a crew of four to five” at a Saturday afternoon press conference. The P-63 is a “single-piloted fighter type aircraft,” although that is what was on the aircraft.

Coates said, “I can tell you that it was crewed normally. “Until the NTSB gives me permission to do so, I cannot release the number of people in the manifest or the names on the manifest.”

The B-17 had been stored in Conroe, Texas, a suburb of Houston, and was a part of the Commemorative Air Force’s “Texas Raiders” collection. Only nine of the model’s approximately 45 complete surviving specimens were flight-ready.

Even more rare was the P-63. There are thought to be 14 examples still existing, four of which were airworthy in the United States, including one that belonged to the Commemorative Air Force.

Between 1936 and 1945, Boeing, Douglas Aircraft, and Lockheed produced more than 12,000 B-17s, of which nearly 5,000 were lost in battle and the majority were scrapped by the early 1960s.