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[nuch_ss396]

This one will make you cry!

B-52 crash

The ultimate sacrifice.....

Nuch

[mockingbird812]

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This one will make you cry!

B-52 crash

The ultimate sacrifice.....


Nuch

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This mishap is sad on so many different levels. Foremost, it was a COMPLETELY avoidable event. Pilot was a known flat-hatter and supervisors never came down on him hard enough - just passed the problem-child along to the next supervisor. He was an accident waiting to happen. Very strong indicators prior to mishap that he should have been boarded out. Flat-hatting in a single seat aircraft is taboo. Doing it in a multi-place aircraft is inexcusable.

[nuch_ss396]

Sam - what's a flat-hatter?

Nuch

[mockingbird812]

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Sam - what's a flat-hatter?

Nuch

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Sorry Nuch, it is a show off. In the military it is a loose cannon, a non professional aviator.

[427TJ]

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Sam - what's a flat-hatter?

Nuch

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Sorry Nuch, it is a show off. In the military it is a loose cannon, a non professional aviator.

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More specifically, a show-off who flies his aircraft so low over the assembled brass and dignitaries at the change-of-command parade that their hats get flattened.

[Ngtflyr]

His squadron commander chose not to ground the guy, he decided to fly with him to ensure nothing like this happened and died as a result of his decision. The really sad part is that the Sq CC's wife and kids witnessed the crash.

[427TJ]

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His squadron commander chose not to ground the guy

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Because the mishap pilot had friends in high places and was close to retirement. The squadron commander could not ground him without suffering a career setback himself so he chose to go along and get along. It was all wink-and-nod stuff and career political BS and it got three good men and one idiot killed.

[Belair62]

My place up in Wisconsin is due south of the Hardwood Air to Ground Missle range. ANG train up there every weekend. They come in at near treetop...so friggin cool and each and every time I hear one I still run out with my son to look. We visit the range several time in the summer...one of the wildest sounds I have ever heard was the gun practice of an A-10 Warthog...indescribable.They still use live ammunition on gun and small smoke bombs on their bomb runs...

[Xplantdad]

It's crazy on the B52 crash video...after the plane crashes...you can still hear the engines racing...just for a second.

Too bad

[427TJ]

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It's crazy on the B52 crash video...after the plane crashes...you can still hear the engines racing...just for a second.

Too bad

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The pilot of that B-52, the loose cannon who could not be controlled, was so dangerous that it was getting so that nobody in his squadron would fly with him. For the airshow demo practice the squadron commander flew right seat for this guy and two more senior officers rode in two other positions on the airplane. The crash occurred because the pilot pulled the airplane up into a fighter-style pitch-up after a low pass. He leveled the airplane on downwind, opposite the direction of landing, but he had run the airplane out of airspeed during this maneuver and the B-52 immediately stalled and began to enter a left spin when it impacted. If you look closely you can see the (squadron commander) copilot's ejection system beginning it's sequence as his cockpit election hatch leaves the airplane over the copilot's seat. Sadly, his seat fired as the airplane hit the ground and he did not clear the fireball. The squadron commander, who had tried to get this guy grounded, had his own family there to watch the demonstration practice and they saw the whole thing.