Added: Jun 6, 2008
From: AVweb
Duration: 3:9
The crash on takeoff of a 509th Air Wing, Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber, February 23 operating at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, was caused by water in the aircraft's sensors, according to an Air Combat report issued, Thursday. Specifically, moisture in three port transducer units "distorted data introduced by a B-2 Spirit's air data system" which led to flawed information entering the bomber's flight control computers. The aircraft was reacting to inaccurate airspeed and a "perceived" negative angle of attack. This resulted in an "uncommanded 30 degree nose-high pitch-up on takeoff," according to the Air Force. Major Ryan Link and Captain Justin Grieve, the aircraft's two pilots and the only two aboard were unable to regain control and safely ejected just as the aircraft stalled and mushed into the ground and its left wing impacted the ground. The $1.4 billion aircraft crashed just off the left side of the runway and exploded. It was the first-ever B-2 crash and followed 75,000 hours of loss-free service. Link and Grieve both suffered injuries during ejection, with Grieve suffering compression fractures to his spine. The report points to the inaccurate readings as contributing factors, adding that ineffective communication of critical information about a technique used to remove moisture from the sensors also contributed. It's possible that all the maintenance crew had to do to avert the accident was turn on the pitot heat prior to performing air data calibrations. But the suggested technique was not part of checklist procedures. http://www.glennpew.com
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t8pp3r Says:
Jul 17, 2008 - yh shes hot aswel shes PILF :p lol
octavian300 Says:
Aug 16, 2008 - lol? do you hate america or somthing?
octavian300 Says:
Aug 16, 2008 - lol no shit..
sen2k Says:
Aug 16, 2008 - no i dont hate america. I hate waste of money on weapons of mass destruction ;)Does it sound familiar? Yes , the terrorists are sitting in your own government :(
octavian300 Says:
Aug 16, 2008 - yes but if theyr were no weapons and we got attacked by .... north korea russia china ect... then wat would we do huh? just die?
masterj345 Says:
Aug 19, 2008 - lol the us militaries biggest foe is not another military but stupid people...pretty funny, no one can beat us but us.
TeamEuropaa Says:
Aug 20, 2008 - i guess it wasn't invisible to the ground
biffbiffson Says:
Aug 25, 2008 - XD teameuropaa thumbs up+
wyrdmagyk4 Says:
Aug 28, 2008 - Your right,ya know...we are our own worst enemies...lol
sypros Says:
Sep 1, 2008 - Yea, ofcourse and then when mother russia decides to be cocksuckers once again we are all fucked.
sen2k Says:
Sep 1, 2008 - U only get attacked if you do bad and unfair to others. Nobody is attacking for no reason except mental retards. If you do have no weaps nobody has any!Look i love the folks around the world i dislike money and powerhungry governments like the USA. This bomber is your taxmoney etc. Your hard worked money goes here into pieces.
wombatsage Says:
Sep 17, 2008 - yeah people really must have been picking on nazi germany and imperial japan.
xela176 Says:
Sep 18, 2008 - my dad was there and witnessed it,it was the moisture(sry 4 tkin long 2 respond)
A2ZNP1971K Says:
Sep 19, 2008 - The delayed response is fine, and your dad is right. But, just to be clear, it wasn't a direct result of moisture in the air, it was an indirect result. The moist air led to accumulation of water in the transducer ports. The air data system on the B-2 has built-in safe-guards against this. What it does is to show an air data fault on the PFDs, which it did in this case (according to records), but, apparently, it was dismissed as a momentary glitch.
Berothsloth Says:
Sep 25, 2008 - Pearl Harbor. Damn we shouldn't have been screwing over the Japanese! Oh wait... we didn't. Well, at least it's not like Kuwait when they were attacked by Iraq! Stealing their oil like that! Oh wait... no they weren't. Hmmm... I guess I can always point out Czechoslovakia's unjust treatment of Germany! OH crap, that's not a good example either.
Berothsloth Says:
Sep 25, 2008 - Power loves vacuum. You have no defense, other people see an oppurtunity to make you their b!!ch. Of course not all countries have a powerful military like the US and they do fine. But, they're often friends with big boys on the block and that earns them some street cred. Our hard earned cash seems to get us more street cred, too, in the form of the most powerful pieces of military equipment in the world.
MysteriousDoor Says:
Oct 13, 2008 - "Of course not all countries have a powerful military like the US and they do fine. But, they're often friends with big boys on the block and that earns them some street cred"Anyone say CANANDA?
elgranto7 Says:
Oct 20, 2008 - We are only human
jjs4you2 Says:
Oct 24, 2008 - Wow, with reasoning like sen2k's, I shall attack him! What a stupid comment.The first crash of a B2 in over 20 years of service.This is a plane that can takeoff from Whiteman AFB in the U.S. fly all the way to Yugoslavia, drop its JDAM's, then turn around and fly back to Whiteman (A 10,000 mile trip w/ many air refuelings) then do the same thing to Kabul Afghanistan, then to Diego Garcia Island, which is further. Not a dent or scratch after all that flying and bombing, then this? wow.
HantuCC Says:
Nov 15, 2008 - Awesome crash!
letitgothinkpositive Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - imagine how many mouths you could feed from this crap.i hope they all blow up.fucking insane scientists developing crap like this should burn with it tooo.
sportexit Says:
Nov 19, 2008 - Okey, this rly makes me kinda sad. for what that crash costed you could of bought 26 Jas 39 gripen NG.
BrandnewdayXY Says:
Nov 20, 2008 - 2 billion of USD burn :(
hates343guiltyspark Says:
Nov 25, 2008 - Ok, um, hello? Hello? State Farm? I'm just wondering, how much are my rates going to go up?......Really?......That much?.....That's.....That's a lot. Um. Are you...you're sure? Wow. Um....How much can I save by switching to Geico?
kofkok Says:
Jul 17, 2008 - Owned!