'El Capitan'
My Profile
My Disclaimer


Recent Entries

Why We Choose to Fight Terror...
Back in the Saddle Again
Zarqawi's Temp Replacement Is Here
C-5 Accident Investigation Complete - Pilot Error ...
Happy Birthday U.S. Army
Fishing With RPGs
USA Soccer - 'Oh No, We Suck Again!'
8 Hours in New York City - Part I
Oklahoma City Memorial
It's Bush's Fault Once Again


Daily Intel

Drudge Report
Opinion Journal
Neal's Nuze
Jamestown Foundation
The Network
Cybercast News
Claremont Institute
Missile Defence
Sonshi
The Onion

Daily Reading

Michelle Malkin
Ace of Spades HQ
Black Five
Mudville Gazette
Cox & Forkum
MauserGirl
Thoughts In Dixie
Lindsay Fincher
Sgt & Mrs Hub
Most Certainly Not
Did You See This
Jake Silver Show
Army Wife
Doc in the Box
Duty in the Desert
Military Motivator

Military Blogs

MILBLOGS
Prev | List | Random | Next
Join
Powered by RingSurf!



B-Sides

Chrenkoff Down Under
Desultory Butterfly
MauserGirl
Toni's View
Right Wing Conspiracy
Li'l Miss Attila
Hollywood Refugee
Esprit d'Escalier
Lindsay Fincher
Gateway Pundit
Superman's Cape
Quirky Chick
Immigration Blog
Trans-Int
The Decadent West
Late Great Diplomad
Caption This
Veri-Frank
Vodka Pundit
Eject Eject Eject
Terrorism Unveiled
Iowa Hawk
Protest Warrior
Rusty Gurl
Sinclair Wong
Our Man in Hanoi
Natural Disaster Blog
Angry in Canada
Prof. Mike Adams
The Torch
Alarming News
Yankee Conservative
Granite State Pundit
Toronto Crawler
Emotional Toothpaste
Orson Scott Card
Card's Weekly Column
NA-NO-BLOG-MO

Stuff I Want

Buy My Cigars.Com
Cigar Blog
Cigars International
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Virgin Galactic
My Secret Lair
Dillon Aero, Inc.
Dream Car
Amazon Wish List
Payment Calculator

Best Damn Teams

San Francisco Giants
San Francisco 49ers
Essendon Bombers

Alma Maters

Soquel High School
U of Cal. Riverside
Cal. State University
Air Force ROTC

Mid East Blogs

Star From Mosul
Neurotic Iraqi Wife
Fayrouz Breakroom
Free Iraq
Iraq The Model
Blog Iran
Lebanon News Blog

Afghan Blogs

Afghan Warrior

Older Archives


Undeserved Recognition
The 2006 Milblog Awards The 2005 Milblog Awards The 2005 Weblog Awards 2006 Time Person of the Year

Bean Counters



Powered by Blogger
Blogarama - The Blog Directory

Monday, June 26, 2006
B-1B No-Gear Landing - The Report Is Out


I've been sitting on this very pathetic yet entertaining story for a couple of months, but now that the photos and report are circulating around I can finally talk about it.

About two months ago the Air Force had a very critical and very expensive B-1B Bomber conduct a perfect no-gear landing out at Diego Garcia, an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The crew was inbound from Guam, about to complete their nearly 11 hour flight when the incident occurred.

The only thing more amazing than this perfect belly landing and slide down the centerline was the fact that the Pilot and Copilot did it on accident. Due to a failure in CRM (Crew Resource Management) and obvious fatigue, the Major and 1Lt. were too distracted with the little stuff to notice that neither of them had pulled that bright flashing little lever located right between them. This is '1st day of pilot training' sort of stuff, yet these guys screwed up big time.

The Air Traffic Controllers also were at fault because they should have been watching the bomber on final to visually check for landing lights. Hopefully they get a little slap up side the head too.

Yes, accidents happen and people make mistakes, so I won't be too hard on these guys since no lives were lost. If they really are good pilots they should have ripped the wings off their flight suits after climbing out of the top hatch of the cockpit and handed them to the on-scene Commander. Then they should have walked directly to the finance office and started a direct withdrawal from their monthly salary to help pay for the 4 engines they just grinded down over 7,000 feet of the runway.

Either way, I'm sure the Air Force can find two cubicles for these guys to fill for the next 20 years.

posted by El Capitan at 10:53 AM


0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home