B-2 Crashes at Andersen AFB (Guam) Contributed by Bill Faith
, who settled in Guam after 30 years in the Air Force, emails:
B-2 Crashes at Andersen
Just past 1PM here now and I just got back from Andersen. A B-2 crashed and burned just before 11AM [Saturday, Guam time] during takeoff. It was the second of two departures. It came to rest off of the active runway and left behind it a long path of burned earth.
When I last saw it about an hour and a half ago there wasn't much left to it. The firefighters were still pouring water on it, but there isn't much left. The two pilots are said to be OK.
Hate to see such a valuable aircraft go down, but at least it went down on the base proper and in the runway environment. Hate to think of it going down outside the base. Aircraft, even the B-2, often fly directly overhead my home in a right hand turn to the runway and at a very low altitude. But, I am not worried.
Six B-52's, on rotation with the B-2's, just arrived. All six are sitting on the ramp right now. Thought the B-2 had left, but it's obvious now one didn't. And now won't. A billion dollars plus...lot of dog food up in flames.
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Contributed by Bill Faith on February 22, 2008 at 11:18 PM in |