http://www.airlineempires.net/blog The Captain Has Turned Off the Seatbelt Sign Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:59:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.airlineempires.net/blog/2008/08/images-and-video-of-b-2-guam-crash/ http://www.airlineempires.net/blog/2008/08/images-and-video-of-b-2-guam-crash/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:41:16 +0000 admin http://www.airlineempires.net/blog/2008/08/06/images-and-video-of-b-2-guam-crash/ On February 26th, a B-2 bomber crashed on takeoff from Guam. This July, the Air Force finally released video and photos of the accident, as well as an official cause. According to the Air Combat Command Accident Investigation Board, water became trapped in some of the sensors which detect airspeed, altitude, and attitude. The on-board computer used this erroneous data to command a higher nose angle than the airspeed could withstand, and the inevitable stall resulted.

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