B2 crash in Guam?

[tlax25]

I read a thread on another board that a B2 crashed in Guam shortly after takeoff. Pilots ejected ok. Can anyone find a link to a news report?

 

[Quimby]

http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080223/NEWS01/80223008

 

[whatitdoing?]

It's all over FOX News and CNN. What are they worth? 2 Billion? Well, at least the pilots are ok and ejected safely. Interesting to see what happened.

 

[SIG600]

Most expensive ejection ever.

 

[ackattacker]

Ouch... glad to hear nobody got hurt. $1.2 billion per is the figure CNN is touting. This might be the most expensive aircraft accident in history...

 

[JungleJett]

A friend was on the program back in the day and the cost was well above 1.2 billion a copy.

 

[AirBadger]

Has anyone in the know been able to confirm they got out safely? Its not so easy to tell after the last few day's incident...

 

[erj-145mech]

Has anyone in the know been able to confirm they got out safely? Its not so easy to tell after the last few day's incident...

You mean that all of the myriad of news stories don't convince you?
This is from the Guam Pacific Daily News:

TO THE POINT

Two pilots safely ejected before their B-2 Spirit stealth bomber crashed shortly after takeoff at Andersen Air Force Base yesterday.

 

[Huggyu2]

A friend was on the program back in the day and the cost was well above 1.2 billion a copy.

I seem to remember the program cost around $44B for 21 jets.
$2B per jet.
Geeezz: we can get 6 Raptors for that!

 

[instructordude]

I seem to remember the program cost around $44B for 21 jets.
$2B per jet.
Geeezz: we can get 6 Raptors for that!

Outraegous!