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Here's how it's done to reclaim the assets. I think there is a part missing though, the crew should be required to blow the bags up.

http://www.ravenware.com/factand/nofic/ ... index.html

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Great pics.

Anyone know what ever happened with regard to reprimanding the crew?
How 'bout a tail number on this BONE?

Regards.

t~

Boy, I bet someone got a real a** chewing over this one.

Dave

Pretty incredible that they could just jack it up and drop the gear and have everything work (if that's what happened).

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I know when I was still in the Army they had the saying that "if you broke it...you bought it", provided you were negligent. I'm curious as to how much pay they garnished from the pilot and co-pilot's pay checks for this little accident. Loosing some personal field gear is one thing...belly landing a B-1 is quite another!!

John

While station at Bergstrom AFB, back in the 80s, we had one of our RF-4C Phantom IIs do this same thing.
When Crash Recovery got "Big Bertha" out to the jet and lifted it up, they moved the gear lever and the gear dropped down.
Poor bird was a "Hanger Queen" for over 300 days repairing the bottom of the left wing where the outboard 370 gal tank pylon went through it, as well as having to have the radome, camera doors and both inboard pylons replaced.
It did fly again after all of the repairs were completed.
I always wondered how far that pilot got, in the USAF!

Leon.

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The number "32" visible on the tail fits only one B-1B (86-0132).

This is shown as A/C 92 of 100 from the final production Lot V (as in "5").This includes A/C 53 through 100,inclusive.

The name listed for this airplane is "Oh,Hard Luck",which may or may not relate to the accident.There's a photo of this aircraft in Santiago,Chile dated March 30, 2006 on Airliners.net.

The last base assignment listed is at Dyess AFB,TX. with the 28th BS of the 7th BW.

I also ran across a press release dated May 17, 2000 that used the Oh,Hard Luck name and said that it was the first B-1 to reach 5000 airframe hours and completed its 1150th landing on the May 9th at Dyess.