Billion dollar crash...

[xmastree]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7260231.stm

[Aero]

whoa. I wonder what happened. The B2 is an amazing airplane, I can't imagine why it would have crashed unless it was shot at. Can you imagine if a B2 was shot down, thats just a moral boost for anyone not friendly to the US.



I want more info dang nabit, I hate it when articles just tell you something happened but nothing else.

[tinker]

Wow! That sucks.
I would hate to be the pilots that had to abort a billion dollar plane.

[jdbnsn]

Wow! That sucks.
I would hate to be the pilots that had to abort a billion dollar plane.

That is exactly what I was thinking, if that had been me I might have just gone down with the plane and saved myself the trouble.

[NightrainSrt4]

That is exactly what I was thinking, if that had been me I might have just gone down with the plane and saved myself the trouble.

Same here. Those pilots are going to be hammered. I can't see something just randomly happening to the jet. Ya I guess anything can happen, but one of my buddies works on the jets (not those), and they are meticulous when it comes to taking care of those things.

Could be jet error/malfunction (not highly likely imo, but could always happen)/ pilot error / or there was someone or something else that caused it. If they can't prove the last one, those pilots are going to be screwed. And if it simply was the jet, they are still going to be under serious pressure the entire duration of trying to figure out what happened. Man I would hate to be in those two guys positions right now.

[jdbnsn]

Meh, who knows it could have been anything. If it wasn't attacked (and we''l probably never know if it was) I do know the original flying wing was terrible about stalling (actually flipping over) when slowing to abruptly. The B-2 is almost entirely computer guided with respect to dangerous airspeeds approaching unstable limits but with all that stuff working together I'm suprised they don't have more trouble. *Plus I hear they installed windows Vista*

[Quakken]

Those have been around since win 95, right?

Maybe they didn't have enough ram installed, and they had superfetch on and had just installed another game, making the system die.

Crysis probably just costed the US government 1.2 billion dollars.

[IndyRacer27]

*Plus I hear they installed windows Vista*

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess it's Bill that'll be on the hot seat. Oh well, it's only a billion, he could afford to replace it. Oh yeah, the user license says that if your computer crashes you can't go after them for damages. I guess he's lucky.

[Quakken]

He's covered on this one but I WILL GET YOU BILL!

[Vertigo]

This reminds me of the space shuttle crash a few years ago, NASA has a tremendous success record as well. But accidents DO happen, thankfully no one was hurt in this B2 incident.

[Bopher]

*Plus I hear they installed windows Vista*

This is the first thing that came to mind with the Military, Windows and Bill I was reading through today.

link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8tFXus4zWc&feature=related)