Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash, Jul 25, 1989, Binbrook...
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress accident on July 25, 1989 near Binbrook AFB, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom with no fatalities. Cause: A swing during the...
- Date: July 25, 1989
- Aircraft: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
- Location: Binbrook AFB, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Takeoff and climb
- Cause: A swing during the takeoff roll that the pilot could not correct carried the aircraft into a tree and a gravel pile. The AAIB report, reference EW/G89/07/20, did not give a definitive cause.
A Boeing B-17G (F-BEEA) owned by France's Institut Geographique National struck trees and a gravel pile on takeoff from RAF Binbrook on 25 July 1989 and caught fire. The crew escaped and the aircraft was destroyed by fire.