Emergency landing of the B-17 bomber "Sugar Report" near Hatalov (1944)
United States Army Air Forces Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress · Damage from anti-aircraft fire
From Lucera, Italy to an unrecorded destination
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Occurrence
- Event fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground (occupants minus survivors)
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 10
- Survivors
- 10
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
- Aircraft type
- Boeing B-17
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- 44-8186
- Operator
- United States Army Air Forces
- Onboard fatalities
- 0 (occupants minus survivors)
- Route
- From Lucera, ItalyTo not recorded
Approximate · Estimated position: Hatalov, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The emergency landing of the B-17 bomber "Sugar Report" near Hatalov was a Second World War event that took place on 26 December 1944 near the village of Hatalov in territory liberated by the Red Army and attached to the restored Czechoslovakia. The B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft of the American air force was seriously damaged by anti-aircraft artillery during a mission and the crew decided to land in territory controlled by the Allies.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Slovak Wikipedia article “Núdzové pristátie bombardéra B-17 „Sugar Report“ pri Hatalove (1944)” (revision 8249005, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Slovak Wikipedia article: Núdzové pristátie bombardéra B-17 „Sugar Report“ pri Hatalove (1944)
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 8249005 · 2026-07-18 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q136452936
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- sk Wikipedia article "Núdzové pristátie bombardéra B-17 „Sugar Report“ pri Hatalove (1944)" (page 734453, revision 8249005), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities (aircraft occupants minus survivors)
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Slovak Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.