The Collings Foundation is a great organization that maintains a small group of historical military aircraft in flying condition, and do air shows nationwide showing off among other things, a B-24 Liberator, a B-25 Mitchell, and a B-17 Flying Fortress. It pains me to report that the B17 has crashed at the end of the runway at Bradley International Airport with much smoke and flames:

Report on NBC News here.

I went with my daughter to my local airport this past weekend to see the small airshow, got to see the Mitchell fly, to do a walkthrough of the Liberator. I wish now I had done the same for the Fort, if not gone up in it myself.

It is unclear how many were on board, how many injuries or any other details as yet. I hope everyone on board survived, that the Fortress lived up to its name of protecting those inside it.

Story is still developing.