Friday, June 6, 2008

Video of B2 Crash

The airforce released another video of the B2 bomber crash on Guam

It looks like the plane suddenly got too steep of an angle of attak on takeoff and stalled. Then it came down and hit the ground with a wingtip.

Edit: On rewatching I can see it takeoff and then suddenly pitch down a few degrees and start losing altitude. That seems to trigger the abnormal behaviour.

A lot of things could have done that, hardware failure, pilot error, windgust at just the wrong time, or a combination of that and more.

Terrible shame, it's good that the pilots made it out.

The B2 is a very difficult to maintain airplane and difficult to fly. Still, it is rather important to find out why this happened.

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