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Following the crash, both the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) launched investigations into the accident. [4] On November 14, the NTSB announced that the wreckage of the P-63 had been moved to a "secure location", while the recovery of the B-17 wreckage was delayed by rain.
The NTSB found that the foundation's preflight checklist called for the engine run-up to be performed at lower RPM than specified in the B-17 ground maintenance checklist, and the preflight run-up of the accident flight was in fact performed at a lower RPM setting, which made magneto problems more difficult to detect because the RPM drop caused ...
The crash happened on Nov. 12, 2022, when a Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63F Kingcobra, a fighter plane, both from the World War II era, collided at the Wings Over Dallas airshow. Six ...
[97] [98] The B-17, of the 224th AAF Base Unit, out of Sioux City Army Air Base, Iowa, was part of a formation of bombers on a camera-gunnery mission, en route to Bruning AAF, which was flying in several elements. The fighter struck the wing man of the second element of the low formation. [99] Only four crew of ten aboard the B-17 managed to ...
A Bell P-63 Kingcobra collided in midair with a B-17 Flying Fortress during the Wings Over Dallas air show on Saturday at Dallas Executive Airport. Here is what we know about the aircraft. B-17 ...
We also have learned that the flight was delayed 40 minutes due to trouble getting one of the engines started. The pilot was also a mechanic. He got out and inspected the engine. He had 7,300 hours of B-17 flight experience and was the most experienced B-17 pilot on the country (and probably the world). The co-pilot was a retired 747 captain.
Moments before the deadly crash of a charter jet on a Florida highway, three warnings about oil pressure problems in its two engines sounded, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a ...
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