French Fortress nose-over in 1953

[F3V]

Hanoï 1953, no injuries aircraft repaired and go back to France

[gary1954]

wow I bet the pucker factor came into play here...great shot, to bad she was eventually scrapped in the 70s

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[F3V]

BGOE was exactly scrapped in march 1967

[Jesse C.]

Interesting shot. Thank you for sharing.

Could you please put something in the heading to indicate this is an old event and not something recent.

Thanks again!

[T J Johansen]

This is the old TWA, and Shah of Persia B-17, right?

T J

[airnutz]

Well, it's the first time I'm glad to hear "Pink Lady" is still grounded.

[Ken]

Curious to know the circumstances as it looks like the pilot got her shut down before she nosed over. If so, good thinking!

[Sabremech]

I usually refrain from making a comment on the sensitivity of the title of a thread, but this is getting ridiculous asking for the title of the thread to be modified because someone might think it happened recently. Read the thread, then you'll have the information you're likely looking for as to whether it's recent or not or involved someone you or I know.
David

[gary1954]

This is the old TWA, and Shah of Persia B-17, right?

T J

Shah of Persia Shah of Iran same same

[gary1954]

I usually refrain from making a comment on the sensitivity of the title of a thread, but this is getting ridiculous asking for the title of the thread to be modified because someone might think it happened recently. Read the thread, then you'll have the information you're likely looking for as to whether it's recent or not or involved someone you or I know.
David

Amen David, Amen

[Dave Lindauer]

Looks pretty fortunate that he ran into the soft ground after leaving the runway. Hard ground and he'd presumably have run into or across the ditch with a lot more damage.

I wonder if anyone was sitting in the nose?

[tom d. friedman]

Hanoï 1953, no injuries aircraft repaired and go back to France

the water reflection in the ditch is pretty cool!!

[F3V]

at this moment there she still had her luxurious equipments

you can see french fortresses on this video at 39 minutes (in french)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... jhXMlji3Uk

a flight with F-BDRR aka 44-83757, F-BEEA aka 44-85643, F-BEEB aka crashed in 1949 at Yaoundé, F-BEED aka 44-83729, F-BEEC aka "thunderbird" ans F-BGSR aka Sally B (without engines)

[aerovin]

Interesting to note that the only remaining vestige of its TWA livery is the Boeing emblem painted emblem on the vertical stabilizer which matches exactly photos of the airplane seven years earlier when it was NX4600 (and later NL1B). The rest of the airplane was completely paint stripped but the small logo remained. Curious.

[Chris Brame]

Looks like she was thirsty...

you can see french fortresses on this video at 39 minutes (in french)

Just watched the video, and what a great find! Merci, F3V.

Scott, if you want to add this to your B-17 Movies page, I'll make some stills for you.