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I get what these people are saying. Clearly he didn’t go into him intentionally, that would be insane and I’m sure they’ll find out this pilot was not insane.
It sounds like the people that are experienced with flying a P 63 understand that there is a blindspot below the nose/wings, and it makes sense that he wouldn’t have seen him making a bank.
But as that last person said, it’s still the P 63‘s fault, he has to assure that the coast is clear even through his blind spots, which he can do before making the bank/turn. The B-17 is totally blameless, unless there’s something else that I don’t know about. But what could it be? How is he supposed to see who’s coming from behind. The B-17 literally got blindsided.
RIP because nobody in either of those two planes survived
Lots of planes in the air. Could have been distracted combined with blind spot. Could have been worse as debris nearly hit plane on the ground.