The horrible Dallas mid-air disaster on Saturday, November 12, at Dallas Executive Airport has resulted in the confirmation of six deaths. During the Dallas air show, a Bell P-63 Kingcobra and a B-17 Flying Fortress both crashed in midair. Craig Hutain, a pilot from Montgomery, was one of many who perished in the horrific incident. He began flying for the airlines in 1982 and has logged more than 34500 hours in the air overall. Dale McLeod, a friend of his, claimed that they had flown together intermittently for 25 years.
According to him, Hutain is “one of the best pilots I’ve ever flown with” and “lit up every room he was in,” according to WFAA. Craig, who was born in Montgomery, received his pilot’s licence in 1975. He has piloted a number of notable aircraft, including the Bell P-63 and P-39, the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, the B-777, the B-737, the MD-80, the Falcon 50 and 900, the DeHavilland Twin Otter, and the Dash 7. He said, according to Tora Tora Tora.com “I began flying in a J-3 Cub when I was 10 years old, along with my father.
Who Was Craig Hutain?
Following relocating to the West and beginning employment at Santa Paula Airport, I fell in love with sport flying, biplanes, radial engines, and aerobatics (California). soloed at the age of 17.” He has been married to Lori for 20 years, and the couple has two daughters, Traci and Kelli, according to the source. They are Leon, Jude, Arlo, and Paige, his four grandchildren. Additionally, he trained pilots in primary, tailwheel, instrument, and aerobatic flight. But in 1982, he began flying for the airlines.
In addition to being a flight instructor, Craig is certified as an airline transport, commercial glider, and seaplane pilot. He started flying in the CAF (Commemorative Air Force) in 2009 and also owns a Vans RV-8. He also flew the following CAF aircraft: Bell P-39 AIRACOBRA, Centex Wing, Bell P-63 KINCOBRA (2), P-63 Sponsor Group, Houston, North American P-51 MUSTANG, Dixie Wing, Atlanta, and Tora Tora. Zero, Kate, and Val. His Facebook profile states that he attended California Polytechnic State University to study aeronautical engineering.
The National Transportation Safety Board is in charge of the inquiry and is attempting to determine what caused the disaster, according to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins. According to Michael Graham, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, “one of the things we would probably most likely be attempting to discover is why those airplanes were co-altitude in the same air space at the same time.”
