XB-29

[cardboard_killer]

[80 years ago today] "• The second Boeing XB-29 prototype catches fire and crashes into a meat-packing plant north of Seattle during testing. All ten aboard the aircraft and nineteen on the ground are killed.

 

Frye Meat Packing plant after the accident"

[Supercharger]

Somebody knows what caused the B-29 to crash into the building?

[AndyJWest]

1 hour ago, Supercharger said:

Somebody knows what caused the B-29 to crash into the building?

 

Engine fire.

 

https://www.historylink.org/file/2874

[Supercharger]

@AndyJWestthanks for your fast response.....

 

By the way, a little known fun fact about the B-29, it is the first "fly by wire" aircraft i ever heard of. Because the C-1 Autopilot was steerable via an "sidestick", primarily used for formation flying.