{"id":195877,"date":"2008-06-08T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/08\/b-2-crash-cause-revealed\/"},"modified":"2008-06-08T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T16:20:00","slug":"b-2-crash-cause-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/08\/b-2-crash-cause-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"B-2 Crash Cause Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cause, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/generic\/story.jsp?id=news\/B-2060608.xml&amp;headline=Forgotten%20Lesson%20Caused%20B-2%20Crash&amp;channel=defense\">water on the air data sensors<\/a>, giving the flight control inaccurate data.<\/p>\n<p>There had been a previous incident on Guam when a pilot aborted takeoff, and the solution was to turn on pitot heaters to dry off the sensors, but this was never adopted as a formal part of the checklist.<\/p>\n<p>It was an &#8220;underground procedure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I would think that on an aircraft that is literally worth its weight in gold, that they would get their maintenance act together just a bit more.<\/p>\n<p>USAF report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acc.af.mil\/accspecialreports\/b-2accidentinvestigationboard.asp\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The video of the crash follows, with the 2nd aircraft being the one that crashed.<br \/><a style=\"left: 0px ! important; top: 15px ! important;\" title=\"Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/e\/f6d_1212714828\"><\/a><a style=\"left: 0px ! important; top: 0px ! important;\" title=\"Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/e\/f6d_1212714828\"><\/a><object height=\"370\" width=\"450\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/e\/f6d_1212714828\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/e\/f6d_1212714828\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"370\" width=\"450\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cause, water on the air data sensors, giving the flight control inaccurate data. There had been a previous incident on Guam when a pilot aborted takeoff, and the solution was to turn on pitot heaters to dry off the sensors, but this was never adopted as a formal part of the checklist. It was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}