$1.4 billion B-2 crash

This might look like a regular airplane crash, but what you are seeing is a B-2 stealth bomber. At $1.4 billion, this was the #1 most expensive aviation accident and the #7 most expensive overall accident in the world's history.

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+22 1. Paul1968 commented 15 years ago

a sad waste of one awesome plane.
thanks uploader for the interesting video.
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-7 2. MarekX commented 15 years ago

Did you saw that too? i think that something fell off the plane just after it trys to take off for the first time..
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-8 3. MarekX commented 15 years ago

well after second saw there is nothing.. so sorry for double comment xD
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+15 4. sledgie commented 15 years ago

the cameraman seems a bit slow
"whuh?.. oh its crashed over there!"
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-2 5. pire commented 15 years ago

hmmm isn't it strange to put videos in here where people die?... i mean, no chance that pilot survived,... or am i wrong? what do you guys think?
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-2 6. pire commented 15 years ago

uhmm sorry, i did not read the stuff about those pilots got away! sry
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+1 7. grizzlykiller2 commented 15 years ago

O my god was that pilot drunk or something when your plane stalls you must slow down and regain control :S
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+2 8. NicknamePending commented 15 years ago

#5 There is a difference you know. Kinda like the media. They show the plane hitting the buildings, but they don't show persons (who jumped) hitting the pavement.
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+6 9. vanenger76 commented 15 years ago

If you watch closly.... 32s in the pilot ejects ;)
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+2 10. vanenger76 commented 15 years ago

also... about 20s in the flaps malfunction, not just a standard stall. :)
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+1 11. dvh commented 15 years ago

#5 at 00:32 they escaped
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+1 12. Dogs_Gonads commented 15 years ago

Apparently, if this is the right plane crash.Which i think it is.

The plane was in for servicing and the engineers had put the wrong software in the plane.So when the pilot takes off.

Crash and burn was going to be the only outcome.

I wonder if they threatened him with the replacement cost.
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0 13. endlis commented 15 years ago

where a killing machine should be up in smoke and unaffordable :P
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0 14. BombDiggady commented 15 years ago

Very sad video.
There goes a huge investment and a beautiful aircraft.
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0 15. Fergus_Thedog commented 15 years ago

Wow, that $ could have given a lot of people healthcare.
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+1 16. AL7AIR commented 15 years ago

From the News: The loss of a $1.4 billion B-2 bomber in Guam was the result of three of 24 pressure sensors on the wings providing incorrect data, which led the flight control software to take unneeded corrective action during takeoff, and causing the aircraft to crash. The pressure sensors were designed to deal with high humidity, but conditions in the tropical climate of Guam created more humidity moisture than the system could actually deal with.
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+1 17. zf1 commented 15 years ago

the pilots ejected before crashing...

#12 actually, humidity caused water to build up in the sensors which normally helped the fly by wire control system determine altitude. the plane was actually registering misreadings before taking off and was sent in to be serviced. the service crew didn't know what was creating the problem and adjusted the sensors not knowing about the water. as a result, the flyby wire control system crashed the plane.
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+1 18. EagleEyes commented 15 years ago

i read the news since the crash happened, and confirmed that both pilots ejected and ok..
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+1 19. Chrisofskjern commented 15 years ago

that plane looks so small from over here
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0 20. Paul1968 commented 15 years ago

@ #19 ...... small? its got a wingspan of over 52 meters :O
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+4 21. whowhatme commented 15 years ago

Amazing stealth technology though .

The way the plane disappears after only a few seconds in the air .
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-1 22. zf1 commented 15 years ago

#21 haha funny, took me a minute to get it though :D
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0 23. Soetje commented 15 years ago

hope it isnt comming out of his salery :D
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0 24. metiodfanhunter commented 15 years ago

if you want to bomb a place, just crash the plane and it will do the job. NO NEED TO DROP BOMBS! :)
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0 25. pookiinator commented 15 years ago

:D You could see the pilots ejecting right at the beginning, when the canopy went. Absolutely amazing. For ooh and ahh, it will always be the Blackbird, for me. Watching them take off, then "step on the gas" and instantly vanish, leaving a couple of sonic booms in their wake, always blew me away :O Never saw the B2s do "touch and goes". They might be just as awesome. Still a damned shame to lose one :'(
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0 26. jackDjohnson commented 11 years ago

Just think of all the homeless, hungry, sick people in the world they could have helped with that 1.4 BILLION instead of wasting it on Government war toys... Shame :'(