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6 hurt in B-17 WWII plane crash at Bradley Airport
Eye Witness News 3 ^ | Oct 2, 2018 | Rob Polansky

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aviation; aviationpinglist; b17; collingsfoundation; planecrash; postedseveraltimes
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Perhaps one of the finest examples of a B-17, gone. So sad.

1 posted on 10/02/2019 9:44:19 AM PDT by PeteePie
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To: EveningStar

Heads up.


2 posted on 10/02/2019 9:52:58 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: PeteePie

Several fatalities, but they won’t how many yet.


3 posted on 10/02/2019 9:53:04 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: PeteePie

From the vid at the site, it looks like it may have crashed into some fuel tanks.

Sad event on several levels.


4 posted on 10/02/2019 9:57:28 AM PDT by chrisser
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it looks like it may have crashed into some fuel tanks.

It did. There was even a maintenance worker in that building.

6 posted on 10/02/2019 9:59:35 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: PeteePie

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


8 posted on 10/02/2019 10:02:16 AM PDT by oldplayer
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To: PeteePie

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.


10 posted on 10/02/2019 10:06:01 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: Fast Moving Angel

For the price of a handful of candy bars Master Sergeant Hans Schultz would show them around.


11 posted on 10/02/2019 10:07:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: PeteePie

NIce B-17G it looks like


12 posted on 10/02/2019 10:07:59 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: PeteePie

I saw her last year at Chesterfield Airport in VA.
Beautiful old bird.
This is so sad.


13 posted on 10/02/2019 10:09:57 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: fireman15
The lady who lived there sold the house after the second crash.
14 posted on 10/02/2019 10:15:50 AM PDT by Disambiguator ("Progressives" want government in action. Conservatives want government inaction.)
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To: PeteePie

Sad news. I toured this aircraft on a few occasions with my CubScout troop when they were at the Venice, Florida airport.


15 posted on 10/02/2019 10:16:12 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: Puppage

13 on board, at least 6 taken to the hospital.


16 posted on 10/02/2019 10:17:01 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
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To: fireman15

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.


17 posted on 10/02/2019 10:19:53 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: fireman15
Just confirmed my initial suspicions,

“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.

18 posted on 10/02/2019 10:24:40 AM PDT by fireman15
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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?


19 posted on 10/02/2019 10:31:31 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: Disambiguator
Lol... as I read that, I was thinking, “To a guy named “Garp”?”

Thanks for the clip!

20 posted on 10/02/2019 10:32:45 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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