The harsh reality of keeping historical airplanes airworthy and flying is that from time to time one will crash. Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after ...
With the vast majority of the B-17’s airframe gone, the NTSB investigation has focused on the four 1,200 horsepower Wright R-1820 “Cyclone” engines recovered from the crash site ...
Emergency crews respond to a WWII B-17 bomber crash that happened just before 10 a.m. at Bradley International Airport Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, in Windsor Locks. Melton, the mechanic on board the ...
3, 2019, with NTSB colleagues at the scene of ... Bob Riddell, who died in the crash of a B-17 bomber at Bradley airport on Wednesday, took this photo as the aircraft taxied for take off and ...
The number of people killed in crashes of large commercial planes fell by more than 50% in 2019, according to an aviation industry study. Last year 257 fatalities were recorded, compared to 534 in ...
The number of people killed in large commercial airplanes crashes fell by more than 50% in 2019 despite a high-profile Boeing 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia in March, a Dutch consulting firm said on ...
or one fatal crash every 3.7 million flights -- up from 0.18 fatal accidents per million flights in 2019. The decline in crashes came amid a sharp decline in flights due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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