[ARC5] B-17 Crash Near Hartford CT

[frledda at att.net]

No! No flight data recorder!

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From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net <arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf
Of Richard Knoppow
Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2019 1:53 PM
To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ARC5] B-17 Crash Near Hartford CT

    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
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL
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