[ARC5] B-17 Crash Near Hartford CT

[Richard Knoppow]

    A question, since there are some active pilots on this list: 
was this aircraft equipped with a flight recorder? A google 
search does not provide definite information.
    So far there is a lot of speculation about why it went down 
but I think we will have to wait for the NTSB report to find out 
anything definite. The NTSB seems to be pretty good at this 
although very slow. We still have nothing definite on the fishing 
boat that burned off the Pacific coast. I expect it will be 
months before a full report is made on this aircraft. Meanwhile a 
great many questions present themselves without much data to 
answer them. We need facts, not anecdotes.
    To address the last sentence of the previous post, a failure 
of a single engine sounds more like running out of oil than 
running out of gas but that is also speculation.
On 10/3/2019 11:13 AM, frledda at att.net wrote:
> I have red thousands of accident reports for the 40s, 50s and after.  It was
> surprising to me to learn that aeronautical judgment was so poor those days.
> Things that we take for granted today were not those days.
> 
> Engines were troublesome to say the least, and running out of gas was not
> un-usual.

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Richard Knoppow
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