“You said a B-17 aircraft has crashed?”

Emergency responders rushed to Bradley International Airport after the report of a plane crash was called in Wednesday morning.

A vintage Boeing B-17 bomber took off from Bradley at 9:48 a.m. Wednesday and, upon landing five minutes later, crashed at the end of a runway into a building.

The plane erupted into a fiery scene with plumes of smoke filling the airspace above it.

The bomber was one of five aircraft on display at the airport this week, with flights available to the public.

Officials have yet to announce the number of passengers on board but injuries were reported.

First responders on the scene described seeing two victims, “both walking wounded” near the scene.

Officials said the injured included 13 people on the plane and one maintenance worker on the ground. Of the people on the plane, officials said, 10 were passengers. The person on the ground was in a building that the plane struck.

Of the 14 injured, six were sent to Hartford Hospital and others to The Connecticut Burn Center at Bridgeport Hospital and St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport.

At least five people have died in the crash, a Connecticut state official confirmed to the Associated Press. The official was not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.

Connecticut Public Safety Commissioner James Rovella said at an earlier news conference that 14 people were injured. He confirmed there were fatalities but said it was too soon to share a number due to the severity of injuries.

“The victims are very difficult to identify; we don’t want to make a mistake,” Rovella said in declining to offer a specific number of fatalities.

The Federal Aviation Administration ordered a ground stop for flights destined to the airport, diverting flights scheduled to land at Bradley to T.F. Green Airport in Rhode Island.

One runway was reopened Wednesday afternoon while the majority remained closed.

Passenger Carl Rock planned to head back to Dallas after a business trip to the area and instead found himself dragging his luggage back to the parking lot.

“A B-17, too," Rock said. "They call it the Flying Fortress. It’s a shame too because that thing probably got shot up about 1,000 times too.”

The Boeing B-17 bomber was one of five vintage flights on display at the airport this week.

Three bombers and two World War II fighter planes were scheduled to be at the airport through Thursday, with flights available to the public.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with those who were on that flight and we will be forever grateful to the heroic efforts of the first responders at Bradley," the Collings Foundation said.

The Collings Foundation, based in Stow, is a non-profit educational foundation that was founded in 1979 by Robert F. Collings and Caroline Collings and maintains a large collection of airplanes, automobiles, tanks and other transportation-related history.

Earlier this year the foundation opened the American Heritage Museum in Stow.