Six people have been confirmed dead after two military planes collided during a Dallas airshow on Saturday afternoon.
Dallas Fire-Rescue told The Dallas Morning News that there were no reported injuries among people on the ground.
First responders rushed to the crash scene at the Dallas Executive Airport, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the city’s downtown.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkin spoke about the incident in a tweet:
“According to our Dallas County Medical Examiner, there are a total of 6 fatalities from yesterday’s Wings over Dallas air show incident.”
Officials have not confirmed the number of people that were on both planes yet, but according to the capacities, one of the planes, a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, typically has a crew of four to five people. The other, a P-63 Kingcobra fighter plane, has a single pilot.
The B-17, a cornerstone of U.S. air power during World War II, is an immense four-engine bomber used in daylight raids against Germany.
Most B-17s were scrapped at the end of World War II and only a handful remain today.
The planes collided and crashed around 1:20 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement, after the airshow.
The Dallas airshow for veterans has been a tradition where military men or those who have served in the military at one point display with war aircraft.
It was the Saturday afternoon schedule of flying demonstrations that included the “bomber parade” and “fighter escorts” that featured the B-17 and P-63.
Crash during a military airshow is very rare, as the veterans involved are highly trained before they can fly a warplane.
