Originally Posted by
First_Principal
In a different country but nevertheless it may be of some interest...
Some years ago I was involved in an operation that offered rides to the general public in a WW2 C-47. Many of the people involved concurrently worked for world-renown carriers and so the pilots, the flight training, and also the maintenance guys all knew their stuff.
I'm assuming that was also the case with these folks in BDL but that recent fatal Convair 340 crash in South Africa raised some doubts in my mind about these historic aircraft operations. According to the accident report the pilots weren't properly licensed for the 'maintenance test flight with passengers' and did no checklists for an engine on fire. And they were supposedly senior instructor pilots for a 'world renown carrier'.
Even if there was no CVR or FDR, perhaps there is video from inside the plane on the GoPros or phones of the survivors as with the South Africa mishap.