B2 crashes! There goes everybody's tax refund.

[klrv6]

At least the pilots made it out. I was at an air show a few years ago with these things. The are very scary. When they want to, the are silent going 200 or so feet above the crowd. Something that big should have made noise...not these. Of course when they flew one by going much faster it shook the ground. Very cool aircraft.

Stealth bomber crashes on Guam - Military - MSNBC.com

 

[UNGN]

2008 has been a bad year for crashes. The first 777 crash, Quantas even crashed a plane and now a B2.

 

[bishir]

We had two F-15s go down recently in the Gulf too..

 

[cfBuick]

Aren't they like a $2 Billion dollar plane?

 

[klrv6]

1.2

I had always heard they were 2B until I read that it really cost 1.2. So, the US still has 20 of them left. At least the pilots made it out. Amazing aircraft. I'm sure they have been places we don't want to know about...

 

["Turbo-T"]

Aren't they like a $2 Billion dollar plane?

Something like that, so I am told is the reason they don't get sent to the middle east.

I'll be headed to the B2 base shortly.

 

[Pitbozz]

I thought it wasn't a tax refund anyways. Just an advance.

 

[UNGN]

I thought it wasn't a tax refund anyways. Just an advance.

It's a refund. But you are getting it a year early. So they are refunding money on taxes you haven't paid yet.

The Government's PR operation is so bad that when they do something good, nobody believes them.

 

[UNGN]

Here's Video of the Crash

 

["Turbo-T"]

I think they just now completed the investigation.

The worst military plane crash I think would have to be the one where a C-130 and an F-16 collided in mid air at Pope AFB in '94....the C-130's wing was clipped where it crashed into a C-141 and caused a massive explosion which killed 24 Army troops and injured many more.

 

[turbojimmy]

I think they just now completed the investigation.

I read that it was condensation in some of the sensors responsible for stabilizing the aircraft. Some people were aware of the problem and had installed heaters to evaporate the moisture but never made an official recommendation so it didn't get applied to all the planes.

Those pilots are amazing. It was pretty clear the thing was not going to get much further off the ground but they stayed with it until that left wing touched the tarmac.

Jim

 

[GNBRETT]

Cost of doing business I guess. If a man can make it a man can break it.

 

['71buickg.s.]

its been a very bad year for the air force in regards to planes.

my sister base (ellsworth afb, the only other base with b-1's) lost a jet in Qatar a few weeks ago, it caught on fire on the ground while loaded with some pretty big bombs. the jet was a total loss after the 2000 pounder exploded.

as said, its the cost of doing business, mistakes happen, some are avoidable some are not.