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The Plano shopping mall is the site of a single-engine plane crash.
The FAA has released the air traffic control recording of the Dallas air show incident that resulted in six fatalities.
The audio captures the air boss of the show panicking when he realized two planes had crashed and the air show instructions preceding the mid-air collision.
Texas’s DALLAS A 36-minute audio clip featuring the air traffic control instructions prior to the deadly “Wings Over Dallas” mid-air crash, which claimed six lives, and the ensuing panic inside the tower when two World War II-era planes went down, was made public by the Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday.
As the performance is being performed, you can hear the air boss or director of the show giving orders and arranging various planes.
Instructing pilots about runways, taxiways, and the demonstration area close to spectators, as well as providing safe navigation throughout the display, is the responsibility of an air boss.
The air boss orders the fighter formation, which includes the P-63, to fly along the 500-foot spectator line just prior to the mid-air collision on Nov. 12, which included a Bell P-63 Kingcobra and a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
As the performance is being performed, you can hear the air boss or director of the show giving orders and arranging various planes.
Instructing pilots about runways, taxiways, and the demonstration area close to spectators, as well as providing safe navigation throughout the display, is the responsibility of an air boss.
The air boss orders the fighter formation, which includes the P-63, to fly along the 500-foot spectator line just prior to the mid-air collision on Nov. 12, which included a Bell P-63 Kingcobra and a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
He then gives the order for the B-17 and other bombers in the formation to fly parallel to the 1000-foot spectator line.
Before those directions, which are all echoed from the NTSB’s preliminary report, no altitude advice is supplied.
Good job, combatants. You’re going to arrive first, so everything will work out. The air chief can be heard stating, “B-17 and all the bombers on the 1,000-foot line.”
Then, someone in the B-17 formation can be heard asking the air boss if they can see the fighters.
The air boss can be heard stating, “B-17, you got the fighters in front of you off your left.
You had the fighters ahead of you off your left, B-17? I hear the air boss saying.
“Yes,” someone can be heard saying over the transmission.
“Fighters will be a big pull up and to the right,” the air boss then says.
That’s the final message received before the air boss realizes something is off.
Following their collision at 1:21 p.m., Terry Barker, Craig Hutain, Kevin Michels, Dan Ragan, Leonard Root, and Curt Rowe all perish.
The air boss repeatedly tells everyone to “knock it off” before calling for emergency vehicles.
The P-63 and B-17 collide at 1:21 p.m., killing Terry Barker, Craig Hutain, Kevin Michels, Dan Ragan, Leonard Root, and Curt Rowe.
The air boss repeatedly tells us to “knock it off” before calling for emergency vehicles.
The phrase “knock it off” instructs all aircraft to stop moving when flight safety is at risk.
“Shut up! Take it off now! Roll over the trucks! Roll over the trucks! Roll over the trucks! Take it off now! The air boss cries in a panic, “Roll the trucks!”
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