B-1 BOMBER LOST IN THE INDIAN OCEAN!!

Fox News

[Walkin Man]

BREAKING ON TV!!

[KSCITYBOY]

As Voyager should know in prior wars friendly fire casualties were much greater in number. I remember seeing something where in Germany WWII our artillery shelled a very large group of GI's killing hundreds.

[Walkin Man]

B-1B Cockpit
The B-1B is operated by a crew of four: pilot, co-pilot, defensive system operator, and offensive system operator. The pilot and copilot are seated side-by-side in the front, behind large, sharply-raked windscreens which are designed to meet severe birdstrike specifications. The pilot and copilot both have fighter-style stick and throttle controls. The offensive and defensive system operators are seated side-by-side to the rear. Unlike in the B-1A, the rear crew members are each provided with a small side window. The crew enters the cockpit via a ventral hatch and extendable stairway that are located immediately behind the nose gear bay. Each of the four crew members sits on a Weber ACES II ejection seat. These seats replace the escape capsule used on the first three B-1As. Each seat has a survival kit, including a life raft and a radio beacon.

[Lazamataz]

Unless Diego Garcia has changed a lot since 1978 when I was stationed there, its a 26 mile by 1 mile strip with a good airstrip, coral sand, tedium, and no women.

Give it to me. I will equip it with strip clubs, all-night casinos, a racetrack, powerboat and jetski bays, bars everywhere, internet cafes, and for income -- for export -- a factory that produced Saturday Night Special junk guns, illegal narcotics, switchblade and ballistic knives, and toilets that flushed with 2.6 gallons each flush!

That'd liven things up a little.

[Jerry_M]

Not unreasonable that this was due to a refueling problem. Many heavy aircraft take-off with a limited amount of fuel so as to maximize ordinance. They refuel soon after take-off and possibly several times enroute during a mission. It is easier, and safer, with a full bomb load, to take-off with a limited amount of fuel and top-off as soon as reaching cruising altitude.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Man, what a place to be stationed! 2 years of pure boredom!

[Antoninus]

Prayers that the crew got out ok....

[Squantos]

Camp Followers have now been installed.......

Stay Safe...

[Blood of Tyrants]

Individual ejection seats that have individual and pilot activated ejections.

[Robe]

Can we at leat have your permission to see if they are alive ???

[ChadGore]

Praying for a safe ejection

[wooly_mammoth]

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-1b.htm

[VMI70]

BTTT!

[MindBender26]

Mikey was...... well, ah, ah, ah...

PS, It was the Jewish Bankers and the Bicycle Riders.

[classygreeneyedblonde]

strobe lite seen in communication with 1 member of crew

[Tree of Liberty]

FOX NEWS REPORTING THAT RESCUERS ARE IN VOICE COMMUNICATION WITH AT LEAST ONE SURVIVOR AND SEE A STROBE LIGHT.

[zarf]

Be patient, the Freeper "motherwheel" network will be cranking up soon.

[Non-Sequitur]

Fox is reporting that at least one survivor has been found.

[Kryptonite]

Fox just reported military has had voice communication with at least one crew member, and spotted a strobe.

[SamAdams76]

No need to get hysterical. Accidents happen even in peacetime. They are unavoidable. We have thousands of people killed each year just driving automobiles. I could probably walk out my front door and get killed by a falling icicle tomorrow morning. It is impossible to conduct a full scale war and obtain zero casualties.

I think that all considered, our casualties so far in this war have been astonishingly low.

[tophat9000]

Fox reporting voice contact with at least one down crewman