Two planes collide in mid-air in North Collins, New York

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[Stuart G]

1. another link...says 3 people died in this crash...

http://live.buffalonews.com/2016/09/25/person-reportedly-killed-mid-air-collision-north-collins/

Three people died in an aircraft collision in bright blue skies over North Collins on Sunday morning, the Erie County Sheriff's Office confirmed several hours after the incident.

A 60-year-old Hamburg man and a couple from Eden, both 69, were the only three people aboard the two planes, according to an administrator at Hamburg Airport and aircraft registration records. The News is withholding their names until families have had a chance to be notified.

Two small aircraft collided shortly before 9:30 a.m. in the skies over southern Erie County, leaving a debris field over a one-quarter to one-half-mile section of School Street between Larkin and Jennings roads in the town, officials from the Erie County Sheriff's Office said at a media briefing at North Collins High School.

Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration were at the crash scene Sunday and investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board will be at the crash scene first thing Monday morning, according to Sheriff's Detective Capt. Greg Savage.

[Old and In the Way]

2. If it is an uncontrolled airfield, you announce as you enter the airspace.

You fly upwind, crosswind, downwind, then base before you declare final. Someone fucked up, bigtime.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. Looks like they were a flight of six flying together. Maybe formation flying?

One was a high wing and one was a low wing. That likely contributed.