NTSB: Pilot Error Likely Caused Vintage Bomber’s Fatal Crash

Damage from a World War II-era B-17 bomber plane that crashed at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn., on Oct. 2, 2019. NTSB/File Photo via AP

HARTFORD—Pilot error probably caused the 2019 crash of a World War II-era bomber in Connecticut that killed seven people and wounded six others, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a report released Tuesday. It cited inadequate maintenance as a contributing factor.

The four-engine, propeller-driven B-17G Flying Fortress bomber with 13 people aboard crashed at Bradley International Airport, north of Hartford, during a traveling vintage aircraft show on Oct. 2, 2019.