Dallas air show crash: Two World War Two planes collide in mid-air

Two vintage World War Two-era planes person collided and crashed astatine an aerial amusement successful the US authorities of Texas.

Footage shows the craft striking each different astatine a debased altitude, breaking 1 of the craft successful half. A fireball tin beryllium seen arsenic it hits the ground.

The planes - 1 of them a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress - were taking portion successful a commemorative aerial amusement adjacent Dallas.

It was not instantly wide however galore radical were successful the 2 aircraft, oregon if anyone survived.

The Federal Aviation Administration said it volition analyse the clang astatine the Wings Over Dallas Airshow connected Saturday, which describes itself arsenic the US's premiere WW2 airshow.

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson called it a "terrible tragedy".

"The videos are heart-breaking," helium tweeted. "Please, accidental a supplication for the souls who took to the entity to entertain and amended our families today."

The fig of casualties are not yet confirmed, helium said, but added that that cipher connected the crushed had been reported injured.

The event's website states that respective planes had been scheduled to bash a flyover objection connected Saturday.

The B-17 bomber played a large relation successful winning the aerial warfare against Germany successful WW2.

The 2nd plane, a P-63 Kingcobra, was a combatant craft utilized successful the aforesaid war, but utilized successful combat lone by the Soviet Air Force.