Crime & Safety

Vintage B-17 Bomber Plane Crashes in Oswego

All seven people aboard escaped unharmed. Witness reports plane flew over her house.

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UPDATE: Federal investigators say cause of Monday's crash is unknown and could take months to determine.

 

A vintage airplane crashed in a cornfield just southeast of the Aurora Municipal Airport.

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