Originally Posted by
sycamore
BPF, `awaremanship` was sadly lacking in the B-17 case, in that if the pilot had put out a `Mayday` and flown the aircraft to land on the other runway (24?), instead of trying to crawl around the circuit, losing altitude and speed, it would probably have been a non-accident event.....
That and the fact that they knew the aircraft was unserviceable and flew it anyway.