[durt]

Seven people are dead and nine others injured after a vintage plane crashed Wednesday morning at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut.



The WW-2 vintage B-17 bomber experiencing trouble after takeoff crashed into a maintenance shed as it circled back for a landing Wednesday at a busy Connecticut airport, bursting into flames and killing 7 people, officials and witnesses said.

[ArtOfLife]

So... not caught on camera? Tragic loss of an incredible (and incredibly rare) piece of history.

[kellyhound]

Last pic from inside the plane from one of the 7 that got killed.
All the names and some pics/stories of the people that got killed in the link.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/n...h-victims.html

[Hunted]

Aftermath of fatal Bradley International Airport B-17 plane crash NTSB

[Xploit Machine]

old planes are meant to be kept in the museum

[William May]

In the blurry pic above. Looks like it was taken from the rear of the fuselage, looking forward. I think the guy in the hat with the light blue pants is sitting at the radio operator's position.
Just in front of the guy sitting nearest the lens, is the lower ball turret. You can see the ammo feed chutes that run down to it, The turret itself is the aluminum ball in the middle. It was a casting and was reasonably bulletproof.
On the right side of the picture, at the top, you can just see one of the waist gunner positions, (The rectangular opening is a window) It was very cold and windy for those guys.
If you look forward, above where the 2 guys are in the front, at the top ceiling you can see the vista-dome, through which the navigator could shoot stars for navigation purposes.
I have no idea what the yellow tank is. It could be engine oil, except that the engines have their own oil tanks in the engine nacelles. (37 gallon tank for each engine. They top off the oil tanks when they refuel the aircraft. They use about 2-3 gallons of oil each engine, per hour of flight.) (Normal for a radial engine.)
I wonder if there is video from some of the families waiting on the ground, or in digital cameras from the people on board. Nearly everyone who flies on these has a camera or video recorder, because it is something they will only do once in their lives, so everyone is filming. I hope some of it survived the accident. I know that CBS news had video shot by one of the families as they loaded up and taxied out.

[durt]

Originally Posted by William May ↗

I have no idea what the yellow tank is. It could be engine oil, except that the engines have their own oil tanks in the engine nacelles.

Hydraulic tank

[Caduceus]

Yellow tank is oxygen. Ball turret was electric.

[Mr_Shlaapu]

Originally Posted by Caduceus ↗

Yellow tank is oxygen. Ball turret was electric.

Exactly! My grandfather had a couple air tanks out of a B-25 looked exactly like that.

[durt]