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B-2 Bomber Crash in Guam
KUAM News ^

Posted on 02/22/2008 7:24:28 PM PST by AzSteven

News just coming out (at least I could not find another report here)

http://www.kuam.com/news/26596.aspx


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: b2; crash; eject; guam; planecrash; stealth; usaf
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To: AzSteven
The military, in peacetime, is still dangerous. And the military is big.

Which brings me to ask a question nobody ever asks:

Since 9-11, have more military people died in Iraq and Afghanistan -------or outside Iraq and Afghanistan?

61 posted on 02/22/2008 8:45:42 PM PST by cookcounty (The press will turn on McCain: Watch for nuclear-propelled flying heads.)
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To: seoul62
What of the danger if it falls into enemy hands?

100 non existent. Guam is a US territory but either end of the runway it crashed is secured by hard jungle or treacherous currents. If it went in the water then the US Navy and Coast Guard could have the area secured in moments. It's said that Jacques Cousteau declared that specific area unsafe to dive.

Most likely the crash site could still be on base, but in a pinch Marines can be called in if needed.

62 posted on 02/22/2008 8:54:26 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Travis McGee
Great picture of two creeps leap or is it two jokers jump. Been a long while since I lived there.
63 posted on 02/22/2008 8:58:11 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

No, the one that is famous is Two Lovers Point up a bit north of Agana. The one I posted is another cliff on Orote Point, the southern jaw of the mouth of Apra Harbor. Guam is full of stunning cliffs.


64 posted on 02/22/2008 9:00:30 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Travis McGee
I always called it two creeps leap.

Ever get out to the “tank farm” where there were Japanese Army tanks still on the island?

Do they still warn people about using caution in the restroom at Tarague Beach due to monitor lizards mistaking certain body parts for their favorite diner of snakes?

65 posted on 02/22/2008 9:11:40 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

I never heard of the monitor lizard warning!!


67 posted on 02/22/2008 9:14:02 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Bryan24
That’s the MAJOR problem with these incredibly expensive and therefore limited weapons -

You lose one to an accident or an enemies’ “ golden BB “ and 5% of your ENTIRE fleet is wiped out.

To put this in perspective, it would be the equivalent of losing 37 B-52's or over 600 B-17s at one stroke. Can we afford to lose a war over 20 lucky shots ?

68 posted on 02/22/2008 9:18:18 PM PST by RS ("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
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To: STARWISE
Isn’t that the 2nd one that has crashed since they were in service ?
69 posted on 02/22/2008 9:18:37 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: OCC

It’s interesting that the first 6 aircraft were initially authorized in Fiscal Year 1982.


70 posted on 02/22/2008 9:19:29 PM PST by MediaMole
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To: F15Eagle
If it crashed where I think it did then it may have also took out some pretty expensive approach equipment.

At least it doesn’t sound like it ended up in the water next to “Screaming Charlie’s” B-52.

71 posted on 02/22/2008 9:22:39 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: magellan
I think we only got 90 or so B-52s left, many of them were scraped and destroyed under the disarmament treaty we had with the Russians......
72 posted on 02/22/2008 9:25:21 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: Travis McGee

Heard they got a lot of snakes on the Island of Guam.


73 posted on 02/22/2008 9:27:08 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: RS

We have a few of Lancers. The loss of one B2 isn’t something we can’t recover from. In fact, I’m sure its replacement is already flying, albeit at night, in the middle of nowhere.


74 posted on 02/22/2008 9:30:28 PM PST by glock rocks (...an orange Toyota? Tell me I'm going to wake up soon...)
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To: Prophet in the wilderness

Yep, they were cut up. Alas.

I wonder how much it would cost to re-open a line to make an updated B-52. It coudn’t cost that much, if you bought them in quantity. It’s old tech, after all. Keep the airframe the same, add modern avionics and engines.

Order a thousand of them. That would be pretty sweet. Once you’ve finnished SEAD operations, Arc Light, Arc Light.


75 posted on 02/22/2008 9:32:17 PM PST by furquhart (John S. McCain for President)
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To: Henchster
What did they do, hit one of those dreaded out-of-control SUVs on the runway?

Very likely, they hit wake turbulence from the B-2 that took off just ahead of them, and it made them roll enough to catch a wing-tip. The pilots would eject as their aircraft slid and started to break up.

76 posted on 02/22/2008 9:33:26 PM PST by zot
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To: Prophet in the wilderness

That’s a big media generated nothing of a story. Yes, there are small basically harmless (except to birds) brown tree snakes. But unless you go out at night with a flashlight looking for one, you will not see one.


77 posted on 02/22/2008 9:35:18 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: STARWISE

I used to live in Yigo. I remember Guam fondly.


78 posted on 02/22/2008 9:35:58 PM PST by Mariner
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To: Prophet in the wilderness

Not sure, but there was another crash recently off Guam.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23302483/

The accident occurred 11 days after a Navy plane crashed into the ocean about 20 miles northeast of Guam’s Ritidian Point. Four aircrew members ejected from the EA-6B Prowler electronic warfare aircraft and were rescued by helicopter.


79 posted on 02/22/2008 9:37:34 PM PST by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

The B1B is the superior aircraft...and we have about 70 of those operational. Another 25 or so “mothballed”.


80 posted on 02/22/2008 9:37:45 PM PST by Mariner
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