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Nine-O-Nine, the B-17 bomber involved in yesterday's tragic crash in Connecticut, was built too late to serve in World War II, but was later rebuilt to resemble the original Nine O Nine, a.


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4/13/2021 WASHINGTON (April 13, 2021) — The National Transportation Safety Board detailed in an accident report issued Tuesday the circumstances that led to the crash of a Boeing B-17G airplane that killed seven people and injured seven others.


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Among the 12,731 B-17s produced between 1935 and 1945, one stands out for its stellar war record and post-war legacy - the Nine-O-Nine. Named after the last three digits of the military serial number, 42-31909, the Nine-O-Nine served the 8th Air Force, 91st Bomb Group, 323rd Squadron based in Bassingbourn, England, with distinction and valour.


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The NTSB has released its final report on the fatal crash of the Collings Foundation's B-17 Nine-O-Nine and the board's takeaway is no surprise to anyone who has been following the story.


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NTSB is currently investigating the crash of B-17 (N93012) "Nine-o-Nine" that crashed at the Bradley International Airport on October 2, 2019. Onboard were 13 people of which 7 were killed and 6 more wounded. Another person on the ground got severely burned on his hands and arms after trying to help the victims from the burning wreckage.


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AeroShell pilot Mark Henley takes us on a tour of the Collings Foundation's restored B-17G Flying Fortress "909."


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The NTSB has issued its final report on the Boeing B-17 known as 909 that crashed at Bradley International Airport in October of 2019, killing seven and injuring another seven, including one person on the ground.


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A portrait of the passengers aboard the doomed World War II-era airplane began to emerge a day after the plane crashed at a Connecticut airport, killing seven. Connecticut State Police near where a.


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I think the aircraft commander for 909 was highest time B-17 pilot on the planet; he was 75. While touring FiFi not long ago, I had the chance to talk to the A/C and was surprised to learn that he was 74. I'm sure both these guys had seen everything there is to see while on tour.


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A preliminary NTSB report on the fatal October 2 crash of a vintage Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in Connecticut includes evidence that the aircraft may have had trouble with more than one of its four engines. An NTSB drone perspective on the wreckage of the B-17 that crashed October 2 at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut.


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In 2017, I flew out of Raleigh, NC, on the Collings Foundation's WWII B-17 bomber '909'. Six days ago, this bomber crashed in Connecticut with significant lo.


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Among the ten warbirds in their fleet by 2019 was a B-17 Flying Fortress built in 1945 under the military serial number 44-83575, although it had been repainted to look like its more famous.


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Painted to look like another B-17 of WWII ( Nine-o-Nine, variant B-17G-30-BO), this late-model B-17G-85-DL aircraft wasn't finished in time to join World War II, but instead spent its 74.


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Nine-O-Nine was a Boeing B-17G-30-BO Flying Fortress heavy bomber, of the 323d Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bombardment Group, that completed 140 combat missions during World War II, believed to be the Eighth Air Force record for most missions, without loss to the crews that flew her.


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It was known at one point as the "Flying Fortress," or "the 909." This plane was one of 18 B-17 actively flying in the United States, Sen. Richard Blumenthal said in a statement after the.


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The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engined heavy bomber developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). A fast and high-flying bomber of its era, the B-17 was used primarily in the European Theater of Operations and dropped more bombs than any other aircraft during World War II.

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