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All the guys got out safely, doesn't look like anything is recognizable at the crash site.

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A B-1B bomber crashed in a remote area of southeastern Montana on Monday, but its four crew members survived after ejecting from the South Dakota-based aircraft, Air Force officials said.

Two pilots and two weapons system officers ejected before the bomber crashed about 9:30 a.m. near Broadus, Mont., said Col. Kevin Kennedy, commander of the 28th Bomb Wing. He said they were taken by ambulance and air to two South Dakota hospitals, but none of them suffered life-threatening injuries.

Aerial photos of the crash show a massive charred area of prairie land void of recognizable aircraft parts.

"No one likes to lose an aircraft. It's bittersweet that we did," Kennedy said during a news conference Monday afternoon. "Luckily, all four air crew are safely recovered."



http://news.yahoo.com/b-1b-bomber-crash ... 05183.html

Thank God they got out.

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Scott Dunkirk
AZGCLHU Inc.

http://arizonagroundcrew.org/

1940's Army Air Force ground crew living history
(A 501 C 3 organization)
(IYAMYAS)

"Yes sir, it's suppose to look like that"

Thank God that wasn't downtown Broadus.. That's some smudge on the landscape. The crew were very lucky to walk away.

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Andrew King
Air Museum Director with no Museum to Direct
Open to Suggestions

I always wondered what would have happened if they had used the capsule setup like we had in F-111's.

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Scott Dunkirk
AZGCLHU Inc.

http://arizonagroundcrew.org/

1940's Army Air Force ground crew living history
(A 501 C 3 organization)
(IYAMYAS)

"Yes sir, it's suppose to look like that"

Riddle me this.

Look at the photo above and then look at the photos on the yahoo news site link above. Looks like to entirely different crash scenes.

Um ,,, no conspiracy here.
Did not work at all when I tried to link yahoo pics, so I found one that would work. Looks the same to me, how many giant scorch marks with the same trail patterns are you going to find out in the middle of the prairie ?

4 and a 1/2?

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Andrew King
Air Museum Director with no Museum to Direct
Open to Suggestions

There's a good chance there'd be more fatalities due to accidents in the B-1 fleet.

A good man lost his life in B-1A #2 when it crashed because you can't just simply scale up the capsule design. Rockwell had been very reluctant to put #2 back into the air for the B-1B program for this exact reason, but they needed the airframes to fit the time schedule. Beside not being very similar to #3 and #4 structurally, the capsule was something that was a major concern because of the multiple failures of it during testing that had resulted in B-1A #3 and #4 being equipped with the ACES II ejection seats that are now installed in every B-1B.

More info here on B-1A #2's crash - http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/B-1_crash_site.htm