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Ten Feet Above Ground: How Two Planes Locked and Fell in 90 Seconds
Ten Feet Above Ground: How Two Planes Locked and Fell in 90 Seconds
Ten feet above the runway, in perfect visibility, a DC-3 on final approach and a Vultee BT-13 collided and locked together - then both fell and nine people died within roughly ninety seconds. Who owned the decision to fly in that uncontrolled airspace, and why did two experienced pilots fail to see each other until it was too late?
In this episode, we tell what happened on April 22, 1947, during a Delta survey flight into Muscogee County Airport and a concurrent BT-13 departure, laying out the sequence of events, the aircraft…
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