A common enough sight nearly seventy years ago, but mercifully, LB was the only casualty in this incident.

Always sad to see an old bird go. I'm glad this crashing B-17 didn't claim any other lives though.

Cheers

Nico

She is off to join her sisters that never made the return flight 70 years ago.

Very sad to see but its great that all onboard got out OK. This seems to be an all too common occurance with these old aircraft.

Heh, yea I guess they'd all go, one way or another outside of a museum (which is still no guarantee).

As I heard an R/C pilot say about his hundreds of hours and dollars invested in a beautiful model that was reduced to wrinkled paper and balsa chips in an instant... If you don't want to crash them, don't fly them.

Quite sad watching that film of the burning wreck. Really scary if it was a cockpit fire, or a fuel tank fire, I'm so very glad they all were able to get on the ground and escape.

Darn
Well at least she brought the crew down alive!

This is sad, and it crashed about a half hour away from me. Glad everyone made it out.

Oh my, what sad news.

Well, it's been a hell of a day to say the least. There are definitely days where you think you should have just gone back to bed. I can't comment on details really (don't know much more than what's in the news postings anyway) - but I talked with Ray briefly and apparently he had just left the airport by a few minutes in the Liberty Foundation's P-40 on their way to their next stop in Indiana. He turned around when the incident occurred and has been dealing with this all day - he's in emergency mode right now, so I just more or less expressed my sympathy and let him get back to it.

The death of this fine lady comes as a shock and I feel sad for the loss but I feel a bit philosophical at the same time. I feel that it would have been a bigger tragedy to keep this warbird locked up in a museum. She had a devoted family of mechanics, pilots, crew, and volunteers to keep her airworthy and a plane like that needs to spread her wings.

I was only ever a volunteer, but I will cherish the time I was able to spend showing people the aircraft and the flights I had for the rest of my life.

Rest in peace Liberty Belle, thank you for getting your final crew on the ground safe.

Like so many of her sisters who made it back, but never flew again, she brought her crew home. What better can you say about an airplane?
I hope someone, somewhere, is restoring another one.