An educational foundation that enables people to book flights on historical military planes has suspended flight operations for the remainder of 2019 following a crash on a World War II aircraft that killed seven people.
The Collings Foundation, a non-profit group based in Stow, Massachusetts, announced on its website that it will issue refunds for flights booked for its Wings of Freedom tour through the 2019 season.
World War II history buff Robert Riddell was among the victims. He was fascinated by the plane and died while checking the flight off his bucket list, his wife, Debra Riddell, told ABC News. The plane's pilot, 75-year-old Ernest McCauley, had flown for the Collings Foundation for more than 20 years and had 7,300 hours in the B-17 -- more time than any other B-17 pilot in the country, according to the NTSB.
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