Video of Most Expensive Crash in Air Force History

[Schmitty]

This is a video of a B-2 crash in Guam. The crash happens at time 2:07. Pilots are safe/not hurt.

http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=169718

[turbothis]

wow, they gave her hell but the stall took it in the end.

[Player]

um... oops?

[nowhereman]

Yeah it looked like the pilot thought he might could get some more air speed just before the wing hit.

[turbothis]

needed the rocket boosters to pull that one off. well, time to pay more taxes to make it up.:rolleyes:

[Woodman in MO]

The report said that it was moisture on the sensors and the computer caused the crash. Also notice that the pilots eject after the plane starts to crash, as in the wing hits the ground, then they eject. That's pretty cool.

But really, the plane was the Spirit of Kansas, so I don't really consider it much of a loss...

[Rocky]

Looks like they pulled up a bit to much ! oops 2 billion dollar crash :nonono:

Rocky

[nowhereman]

It does look like an oops, he did seem to have control while trying to correct the stall. But moisture sounds good.

[Woodman in MO]

I got the impression that the pilot wasn't at fault. That the computer took over and pulled the plane up overriding the pilot's control.

[Old Jimmy]

A billion dollars lost because of water??? I sure hope they never have to fly in morning dew or the rain or fog. Oh well, someone will come up with a sensor dryer and sell it to the Air Force for a million dollars each...

[okie shooter]

I got the impression that the pilot wasn't at fault. That the computer took over and pulled the plane up overriding the pilot's control.Yep, sounds like the fly by wire got it, the computer has to compensate for the unstablity of the aircraft, thus it got bad data, no matter what the pilots wanted, with the bad sensor data, it corrected the aircraft wrong. The pilots only think they are flying the aircraft, the computer takes their data and flys the plane.

[SteelCore]

So that's how much fuel a B-2 can hold...or spill, actually.

[rifleman]

looks like he pulled the nose up about 100 yards to early

[nevada]

Man, poison gas from the strange materials. 'RUN!"

And bowing to the modern trend of the (idiots) moment: That'sa beeg carbone footaprint.

Probably equal to ten cows.

[RandyCOG3]

Forget where I read about this, but the moisture prob was a "known issue", with a known cure... it just wasn't known to everybody that needed to know.:sleepy:

RandyCOG3

[bigbear77]

...well, time to pay more taxes to make it up.:rolleyes:

Instead of raising taxes, how about if they shipped some of these over here and sold them to folks like us? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080619/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_weapons_found

We'd have that sucker paid off in no time :wink:

[turbothis]

this is usa! we dont like easy cures... we would much rather think about it till the time has passed and then say sure.

[cfish]

Actually what happened is that the crew got bad data from the air data computer due to moisture. The indicated airspeed the crew saw on the hud was incorrect. That airplane flies on a very narrow airspeed margin. When the crew rotated they were to slow for the condition hence the sudden nose down attitude. The moisture in the system has been a known problem and Guam with its high humidity was an accident waiting to happen and it did. The crew had no way of knowing they were rotating at the wrong time. I doubt these guys fly all that much as to have a sense of feel for( seat of the pants) that regime of flight. Sims just don't give you seat of the pants training.

[brewskzilla]

Yeah, that pilot tried to save it. good thing he/she got out in time.