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Survivors and Families of Those Killed File
Suit Over WWII Bomber Crash

By Katheryn Tucker

Damage from a World War II-era B-17 bomber plane that crashed on Oct. 2 at Bradley International Airport in

Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing seven people. A lawsuit was filed June 9 against the owners and operators of

T the airplane. (NTSB)
he families of those killed and the injured sur- ment on the lawsuit. The lawyers who signed the
vivors have filed wrongful death claims against complaint include William Ronalter, Mark Ostrows-
the owner of the World War II bomber that ki and James Bergenn of the firm’s Hartford office.
crashed and burned at Bradley International Air- The foundation did not respond immediately to
port in Windsor Locks last year. a request for comment. The last message entered
“The crash was the result of the negligence, reckless- on the group’s website was Oct. 14, saying, “Please
nessandcallousindifferenceoftheCollingsFoundation join the Collings Foundation in our thoughts and
and its agents,” said a complaint filed in Connecticut prayers with those who were on the tragic flight of
Superior Court in Hartford. The alleged negligence the B-17 Flying Fortress ‘Nine-O-Nine’ on Wednes-
of the Stow, Massachusetts-based private foundation day, October 2nd. We will be forever grateful to the
“resulted in the horrific death of five passengers and heroic efforts of the first responders at Bradley In-
serious and permanent bodily and emotional injury to ternational Airport and the assistance of all local
five other passengers,” the complaint said. agencies in the days after the crash.”
The pilot and co-pilot were also killed in the Oct. The foundation also said its team “has been and
2, 2019, crash. remains fully cooperative with officials to determine
Shipman & Goodwin represents eight of the 10 the cause of the crash and we will comment further
passengers on the plane. The firm declined to com-
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