VIDEO - Stealth Bomber Crash

Joe Kelley, Host of the KRMG Morning News

@ June 9, 2008 6:13 AM Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The results are in after months of investigations into what was the United States' first and only B-2 Stealth Bomber crash. On February 23 a B-2 bomber crashed at Andersen Air Force Base while trying to take off. Today in a teleconference interview with the press the U.S. Air Force released the findings of it's investigation.

Officials say it was a computer miscalculation that caused the billion-dollar B-2 crash that occurred at AAFB at 10:30 in the morning. Investigation Board president and vice-commander of the 8th Air Force Major General Floyd Carpenter says moisture was a major factor in the crash, saying, "It was not a person error, not a pilot or techinician error. It was some bad data because we had moisture and some air sensors on the wing theirs 24 sensors on this wing 12 on the top and 12 on the bottom in groups of four right on the nose and on the cheeks out on the wings. These little sensors measure the pressure of the air; obviously, to give the airplane altitude airspeed angle of attack they calculate all of those things."

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