08 June 2008
B-2 Crash Cause Revealed
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 an "underground procedure".
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.
USAF report here.
The video of the crash follows, with the 2nd aircraft being the one that crashed.
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 an "underground procedure".
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.
USAF report here.
The video of the crash follows, with the 2nd aircraft being the one that crashed.
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