BNO News: FAA confirms a Boeing B-17 plane carrying 7 people crashed SE of Aurora airport in Illinois. No injuries immediately reported.There aren't many of those WWII veteran warbirds still flying.
@cdsmoem has a photo of the crash:
A World War II era B-17 made an emergency landing in a field in Oswego, Illinois shortly after taking off from the Aurora airport.
One person was slightly injured after the plane hit the ground and burst into flames, but six others escaped without injury.
The vintage plane, buitl in 1944 referred to as the "Flying Fortress,"crashed and burned at Route 71 and Minkler road in Oswego, just four miles from its takeoff. The bomber was headed toward Indianapolis.
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It was "Liberty Belle", painted in the markings of the 390th Bomb Group. The 390th was reactivated in '62 as a Strategic Missile Wing in Arizona. Had 18 Titan II missile launch complexes, one of which remains as a museum.
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