I was sad to hear about this because I remembered this exact B-17 was featured in a great 1990's National Geographic article about the 8th AF; it was one of my favorite NatGeo articles when I was a kid.
You have to be extremely careful with these old fashioned planes. Several years back I remember the original P-51 Mustang that appeared in "Saving Private Ryan" also crashed - the guy at the controls was the same pilot who had filmed with Tom Hanks and the other stars in 1998; sadly he was killed.
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