Just before a midair collision that killed six at a Dallas air show, a group of historic fighter planes was told to fly ahead of a formation of bombers without any prior plan for coordinating altitude, according to a federal report.
A person familiar with the show's operations that day said the air crews were given general altitude direction in their morning pre-show briefing. However, there was not a discussion of specific altitudes for each pass the aircraft were going to perform, said the person, who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and did so on condition of anonymity.
The NTSB said a navigation device on the bomber"contained position information relevant to the accident" but a device on the fighter didn't record during the flight. All the men were volunteers who had gone through a strict process of logging hours and training flights and were vetted carefully, Hank Coates, CEO of Commemorative Air Force, said after the crash.'She's trying to open the door!' Southwest flight makes emergency landing after passenger tries to leave plane
"What happened for two pilots of this skill level to end up in the same airspace at the same time?" said Cox, the founder of Safety Operating Systems, which helps smaller airlines and corporate flight services around the world with safety planning.
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