B2 Spirit Bomber Crash

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Moisture in the plane's sensors made it uncontrollable during its takeoff. Both pilots safely ejected.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: June 6, 2008 at 4:06 am
Author: lsb94281

Length: 00:03:12
Rating: 4.39
Views: 55735

Tags: B2 B-2 Spirit Bomber USAF United States Air Force Plane Aviation Avionics Crash Accident Airplane Fighter

Video Comments:
Beatpoet7371 (September 29, 2008 at 9:32 am)
On 23 February 2008, B-2A, 89-0127, Spirit of Kansas, of the 393rd Bomb Squadron, 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, crashed onto the runway shortly after takeoff from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. The crash of the Spirit of Kansas, which had 5,100 flight hours, was the first ever for the B-2. The crew attempted to save the bomber but, as the port wing began to hook the ground, they ejected and survived. The aircraft was completely destroyed, an estimated loss of US $1.4B.
Beatpoet7371 (September 29, 2008 at 9:25 am)
21 built, 20 in operation ... this one broke up the count. Bad girl! LOL!
Soulxlight (September 24, 2008 at 7:25 am)
Good job reading the description for this video.
ImprovedAtom (September 17, 2008 at 9:27 pm)
and there we have it a 2.2 billion pound plane gone down
life700 (October 5, 2008 at 6:09 pm)
1.4 bil actually lol.
meserostalking (August 28, 2008 at 8:58 am)
Sweden? Whine all you want, Swede— in America we think Swedes are a bunch of sissies, anyway. Over here people don't know the difference between you and the Swiss, and you get credited for many Swiss things. How unfair to the poor Swiss.

Like it or not, the attitude over here is that you folks are kind of a sorry lot. Why don't you move here for a few years and see why we like this country so much? You can share in the land of opportunity! We welcome Europeans.
Sasquatch279 (August 18, 2008 at 10:17 pm)
looks like one of the engines on the right failed or somthing was falling off the plane as it started to rotate
flyingmonster111 (August 11, 2008 at 4:25 pm)
Would it no show on one of the panels that one of the sensors was tech? I did not even no there was footage of the crash! One good thing to say is at least the crew survived! Has anyone heard bout the 52 that crashed from Gaum last month? If so any ideas what happend?
bali105 (August 4, 2008 at 5:39 am)
RIP Spirit of Kansas, seriously seeing this beautiful plane crash is heart wrenching.
whitezero7 (September 17, 2008 at 7:30 am)
there goes our taxpayer money...

billion dollar piece of machinery.


very heart wrenching.