B-2 Crash

Wow. I was just at the Dayton Museum last weekend with my son and we were marveling at the B2. How sad to see it stall like this. It must have a ton of thrust to keep it going for a while. The pilot hung in there until the end. Forget the price comments. Wrapped up in the cost includes employment for thousands of the best engineers in the world for many years. It always seems so hypocritical when the Liberal media forgets to say 'how' the cost was arrived at. This is an amazing and obviously expensive plane, but did not 'cost' $1M to build.
Good thing the pilots did not land in the fire.....

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Of course...the accident investigation is complete and has been released.
http://www.acc.af.mil/accspecialreports/b-2accidentinvestigationboard.asp

Someone knows what really happend?

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It can't be built again, but your correct that human life is more important.

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$400,000,000.00 say around $60,000,000.00 per new F-16.

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Wow...I'm amazed you think that!!! What a shock...

good thing is pilot ejected safely,though 1.4 $ is pretty huge but it's not a problem for the US,right checksixx!

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OUCH !.......bang goes a couple of billion dollars.

huh ,d*** that looked pretty bad, good that the crew ejected safely ,,thanks god!..for the plane..well, it may be lost but it can be built again ...human life cant.

by 1.4 Billion $?

How many F-16 can be bought by .4 Billion$?

I think that the control systems of such an expensive bomber should be checked and secured at high precision and expertness before the flight,
1.4 Billion is completely enough to create an small Airforce of fighters?!!

It crashed due to moisture in the air data computer which misscalculated the AOA and airspeed which lead to the crash.

Read the full story:
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123101727

Actually $1.4 Billion.

so that's what 2 billion dollars looks like on fire...often wondered.

I heard that computer used to fly these machines are almost flying by them self. But it looks that this is not preventing from accidents like this.

Expensive crash..

Predator...you really need to read the accident summary.

So what happened? Is it because of not enough speed?

Pilots stayed calm until the last moment that's cool..
Turkey has many martrys who didn't eject for trying to save the jets,i wish they also have ejected on time...

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wow thats very specific reason thanks

This makes me sick to watch as well since I helped with the designing and build of this aircraft back when it was secret. Thx for the images.

Yeah I thought the same thing...did you check out the vapor?

god that makes me sick to watch. im surprised they pulled it out of the origional high angle of attack...

Impressive and expensive accident, thx checksixx for the post.

Everyone please see the forum posting for the link to the accident investigation...it will give you the cause.

Wow ,pilots reacted very well looks as though they stayed with the aircraft as long as they could and didn't eject till the last moment and it was great to see a normal B-2 takeoff so when the second one crashes you can really tell how much the planes nose pitched up suddenly if it were my guess i'd have to say computer failure considering how many this plane relies on to just maintain level flight ,thanks for the download checksixx I really enjoyed it especially knowing the pilots came out ok.

Yes, you should read the report at the news link I provided. There is also another video that I couldn't post here due to the format.