It was not immediately clear what caused the crash.
Being made/maintained by Boeing is a kind of explanation for such a thing these days…
People need to get behind “if it’s Boeing, I ain’t going.”
Was this one of the B-52 Max?
Wtf is going on with all these planes falling out of the sky
Good, one less B-52 to worry about
Suckers and losers.
Trying to remember what I can of the B-52, I would be absolutely gobsmacked if it was a fuel and or engine problem considering it has 8 turbines. Considering there doesn’t look like any secondary explosions would rule out some sort of payload shift. That seems to leave just an unintentional stall or indeed a jammed control surface. Considering the contractors, there is a non-zero chance they were instrumental in this.
Also one-wings are notoriously hard to fly and B-52’s are actively supporting the pilot (via computers) to even make it operational for a human, if I don’t misremember. So maybe that failed?
Having passive assistance that couldn’t fail would actually be a great thing an bring one-wing designs into the commercial aviation.
B-52 not B2 Thing is from the 50s
Oh shit, my bad. I thought one-wing bomber. This us a flying fortress, no? Put an edit on my original comment.
No. Flying fortress are the old old bomber from early cold war. They flew a lot in Vietnam. Slow slow planes. They also leave a black streak across the sky from the exhaust.
B1B is supersonic with the moving wings B2 is subsonic one wing
The B52 is the stratofortress. That might have been the source of confusion.
Remember the B stands for Boeing (I know it’s actually Bomber for the class, but it fits too well here). Feel bad for the crew though.
I know you’re just a random person, but the pilot was a childhood friend and I’m honestly still processing. He left behind his highschool sweetheart and two young children.
Boeing is the poster child of what killed the USA.
Boeing went from an engineer centric company and was poisoned by a “reverse-merger” that put people who already killed one manufacturer in charge. These parasites proceeded to stick to the same playbook that drove them into the ground plus double downed on their greed. I added up all the stock buybacks which looks like legal embezzlement and it was more then the research and development costs of the 777 and the 787 combined. I didn’t bother with adjusting for inflation as the buybacks are spread over decades, so the true cost is definitely worse.
