{"id":137635,"date":"2025-08-11T18:49:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137635\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T18:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:49:16","slug":"trial-for-wings-over-dallas-airshow-crash-postponed-until-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137635\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial for Wings Over Dallas airshow crash postponed until 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The trial date for a lawsuit in the Dallas airshow crash<\/a> that killed six people in 2022 has been postponed.<\/p>\n

The jury trial, which was initially slated to begin Tuesday, has been delayed until June 2, 2026, according to online court records. <\/p>\n

Two World War II-era aircraft collided mid-air on Nov. 12, 2022<\/a>, during the Commemorative Air Force\u2019s Wings Over Dallas Airshow at Dallas Executive Airport. <\/p>\n

Terry Barker, Leonard \u201cLen\u201d Root, Curtis \u201cCurt\u201d Rowe, Craig Hutain, Dan Ragan and Kevin \u201cK5\u2033 Michels were killed, and a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress<\/a> and Bell P-63 Kingcobra<\/a> were destroyed. <\/p>\n

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None of the thousands of spectators watching from the ground were injured or killed.<\/p>\n

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The trial was set in response to a 14-page lawsuit<\/a> filed by Root\u2019s family in August 2023. <\/p>\n

The 66-year-old retired pilot\u2019s wife, Angela Root, and daughters Larisa Lichte, Kendra Hockaday and Rebekah Lowery filed the suit in Dallas County \u201cto help ensure safety for pilots participating in air shows and to show that the tragic death of a beloved husband and father is an immense loss made even more traumatic by its preventable nature,\u201d according to a written statement from the law firm representing the family. <\/p>\n

The lawsuit alleges negligence by the Commemorative Air Force, American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum Inc. and American Airpower Heritage Museum Inc., including not properly monitoring the aircraft and intervening in a timely manner, and failing to establish proper safety management systems or conduct a proper preflight briefing.<\/p>\n

The family is seeking more than $1 million in damages.<\/p>\n

A report following a two-year investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board<\/a> has since echoed some of the lawsuit\u2019s allegations, largely blaming the crash on poor planning and inadequate communication, in addition to a lack of administrative planning to address \u201cpredictable risks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kevin Koudelka, one of the attorney\u2019s representing Root\u2019s loved ones, told The Dallas Morning News in a phone interview on Monday that the delay was \u201cnothing we didn\u2019t expect,\u201d adding the case\u2019s timeline was dependent on the release of NTSB\u2019s final report.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe report reaffirmed a lot for us,\u201d Koudelka said. \u201cWe think it\u2019s very clear who was at fault, and we will keep pushing forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

A lawyer representing the defendants did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trial date for a lawsuit in the Dallas airshow crash that killed six people in 2022 has…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[10314,5229,356,1596,7290,358,522,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-137635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-airlines","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-county","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-transportation","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115011634096504753","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}