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Aviation => Aviation Accidents/Incidents => Topic started by: ORD Don on June 13, 2011, 12:46:49 PM
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Amazingly, the 7 people on board were alright. It's a shame to lose this beautiful plane, though...
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8187278
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Another local article with youTube links of ground level fire footage.
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20110613/news/706139928/
Why does the media in most of the articles I have read or seen on local TV, say it crashed, crashed landed, etc.? It made a successful emergency landing with an engine fire and was destroyed by the spreading engine fire. At least in this link, the Daily Herald said it made an emergency landing.
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Here's some edited audio from the tower at Aurora Municipal Airport KARR. The calls of "fire" come about
5 min. after "Fortress" is cleared to take off. Edited from KARR-Jun-13-2001-1430Z.
I will post this on ATC/Pilot Audio Clips as well...
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:cry:
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Much more information on this incident - including an amazing photo 360 panorama of the inside
of this plane - in the ATC/Pilot Audio Clips section of the forum...
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I'm glad that everyone got out safe but a sad sad day for the few B-17s that are still around. I can't help thinking that the Liberty Belle survived the war, and all these years, only to burn in a field...
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I'm glad that everyone got out safe but a sad sad day for the few B-17s that are still around. I can't help thinking that the Liberty Belle survived the war, and all these years, only to burn in a field...
Totally agree with you. One small note...the Liberty Belle actually never saw combat in WWII. She was built to late according to Wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Belle_%28B-17_Flying_Fortress%
Liveatc.net gets a nice plug on the Wiki page... 8-)