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"SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 2 - Thirteen army flyers were killed today when a B-17 Flying Fortress, headed for Los Angeles from McChord field, Tacoma, Wash., exploded in flight over McClellan field and plunged 3000 feet to the ground in flames. Thousands of Sacramentans, startled by a terrific explosion, looked skyward and saw the crippled and ...
The aircraft involved was a 74-year-old Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, military serial number 44-83575 (variant B-17G-85-DL) with civilian registration N93012. [4] The aircraft was painted as a representation of a different B-17G, [ 5 ] Nine-O-Nine , with military serial number 42-31909 (variant B-17G-30-BO), which had been scrapped shortly after ...
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.
According to a report from the War Department about the crash, Donini's B-17 was flying at an altitude of 24,000 feet over Germany when it collided with an escort fighter plane of the same squadron.
2021 Indian Air Force Mil Mi-17 crash: Otis Redding: United States 1967 Singer-songwriter Beechcraft Model 18 [10] Lake Monona, Madison, Wisconsin, United States Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy: India 2009 Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India Bell 430: Nallamala, India Jim Reeves: United States 1964 Country music singer Beechcraft Debonair [10]
- Army officials today investigated the crash of a plane near Oak Ridge, Miss., in which 17 persons, two of them women, were killed." [ 85 ] The Biloxi Daily Herald reported on 16 June that the sole survivor was Sgt. R. L. Bullock of Somerset, New Jersey , an engineer on a B-17 stationed at Laredo , Texas, who was thrown clear when the plane ...
More than 10,000 B-17s were produced, but only a few survive today, according to Boeing. The B-17G Flying Fortress was equipped with 11 to 13 machine guns and capable of a 9,600-pound bomb load.
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