Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after technical ... The airplane’s pilots tried to perform an emergency landing at Bradley International Airport ...

After landing ... of the B-17’s airframe gone, the NTSB investigation has focused on the four 1,200 horsepower Wright R-1820 “Cyclone” engines recovered from the crash site.

Robert Riddell was a World War II buff, and a ride on a B-17 Flying Fortress was on his ... plane crashed while trying to make an emergency landing. Minutes before the crash, Riddell was keeping ...