Cowboy Blob's Saloon and Shootin Gallery: B-2 Crash Video Released

Friday, June 06, 2008

Ouch! Speaking of plane crashes....

At 7:50 PM, Anonymous said…

Did they find out the cause of the crash?
Daisycat
At 9:11 PM, Cowboy Blob said…

I think it was moisture inside some of the electronics.
At 1:35 PM, Anonymous said…

Key points of the accident are at the below link.

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

Moisture in Pitot tube (converts airspeed from pressure) gave false airspeed. Pitot tube heaters weren't turned on when they should have.
At 2:26 PM, Anonymous said…

Pilot error.

No pitot heat = bad airspeed.

Rotate while going too slow, and you get a stall a few feet AGL.

Bad things then happen.
At 9:38 AM, Matt said…

Can I smack the cameraman around until he learns how to track a moving object correctly?
At 12:00 PM, Anonymous said…

The camera was a remote operated by a joystick. They are used to watch taxiways that can't be seen from the tower, to help avoid runway crashes like the JLM disaster.

The only reason the footage was shot was because a controller was bored and was using the cameras to watch the B-2s take off.
At 1:26 AM, Anonymous said…

Let's see Captain Smith.....

I estimate at your current yearly earnings of $75,000/year it will only take 16,000 years to pay off that $1.2 billion aircraft as a consequence of your inattention to detail. Please step into the pentagram to complete the Ritual of Everlasting Servitude.

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