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Perhaps one of the finest examples of a B-17, gone. So sad.
Posted on 10/02/2019 9:44:19 AM PDT by PeteePie
WINDSOR LOCKS, CT (WFSB) - A vintage WWII plane crashed at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks on Wednesday morning and caused a large fire.
Six patients were brought to Hartford Hospital, the hospital said.
The Life Star emergency helicopter confirmed that it was transporting one of them.
(Excerpt) Read more at wfsb.com ...
Heads up.
Several fatalities, but they won’t how many yet.
From the vid at the site, it looks like it may have crashed into some fuel tanks.
Sad event on several levels.
It did. There was even a maintenance worker in that building.
Dadgummit! What should have been a terrific flight on a wonderful plane turned into a tragedy. Both lives and the plane were lost forever.
Godspeed
We live on a small airport and many of our neighbors own vintage aircraft. Even our primary airplane is 50 years old. The last two fatal crashes here happened after the airplanes suffered power loss or engine failure on takeoff. Both pilots tried to make a 180 and return to the airport and both stalled in the turn and ironically crashed through the roof of the same house. The lady who lived there sold the house after the second crash.
We have a friend who had a loss of power on takeoff and destroyed his beautiful late 40s era Navion, but he landed straight ahead off the airport and he and his wife walked away uninjured.
For the price of a handful of candy bars Master Sergeant Hans Schultz would show them around.
NIce B-17G it looks like
I saw her last year at Chesterfield Airport in VA.
Beautiful old bird.
This is so sad.
Sad news. I toured this aircraft on a few occasions with my CubScout troop when they were at the Venice, Florida airport.
13 on board, at least 6 taken to the hospital.
Both pilots tried to make a 180 and return to the airport and both stalled in the turn and ironically crashed through the roof of the same house.
I was always taught never to turn back under 5000 ft.
“Kevin Dillon, the executive director for the Connecticut Airport Authority, said the plane took off at Bradley International Airport around 9:45 a.m. ET. At 9:50 a.m., the aircraft indicated that it was experiencing a problem.
The aircraft was not gaining altitude, he said.
The plane tried return to the runway, and upon touchdown, it lost control and hit what’s known as the de-icing facility — tanks that contain de-icing fluid as well as maintenance facility associated with it.”
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/world-war-ii-plane-crash-connecticut/index.html
The coverage that I have found so far is totally typical for this type of tragedy with news commentators blathering about stuff they have absolutely no knowledge of.
The funny thing about that is that the house we bought on the airport is about midway down the field and right on the runway. There was a big mark where some repairs had been made in the master bedroom. I asked the realtor what had happened and he said the prop had come off an airplane and hit the house. My wife said, “Well good, its been predisasterized.” Maybe she was channeling the World According to Garp?
Thanks for the clip!
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