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.....
Originally Posted by
uxb99
That and the fact that they knew the aircraft was unserviceable and flew it anyway.
Indeed, the key items, include the shoddy FAA oversight and G knows how many times, they got away with it.