This is a partial list of accidents and incidents involving the Boeing-designed B-17 Flying Fortress.
Combat losses are not included except for a very few cases denoted by singular circumstances.
Aircraft were constructed by a three-firm consortium, Boeing, Vega and Douglas, known by the acronym BVD.
Boeing built aircraft at their plant in Seattle, Washington, and their production models were appended -BO.
Eight USAAF crew, 16 U.S. Coast Guardsmen, returning from duty in Greenland, and one civilian are killed when the B-17G-105-BO, 43-39136, c/n 10114, they are flying in crashes into Mount Tom, Massachusetts,[111] at ~2220 hrs.