To BT,
If the details...
At about 10 p.m. local time on May 8, 2006, a 7th Bomb Wing
B-1B Lancer based at Dyess AFB, Texas, made a wheels-up
belly landing on runway 31 at Diego Garcia, skidding 7,500
feet down the runway. The aircraft was landing at the end of
an 11 hour ferry mission that started at Andersen AFB,
Guam. During the landing, the B-1B caught fire and
emergency crews extinguished the flames. The four-person
aircrew escaped from the plane through the overhead escape
hatch. The aircraft was finally removed from the runway 4
days later. The Air Force Accident Investigation concluded
the pilots forgot to lower the landing gear. The USAF
estimated the damage to the B-1B at $7.9 million, and the
damage to the runway at $14,025. RBRM and those old SEABEES
made one tough runway, that's for sure! For those of you
who've never seen a $285,000,000.00 bomber on the deck, here
she is:
http://www.zianet.com:80/tedmorris/dg/bombers4.html to
see pictures...
I have several questions..
1. It was a night landing and the lights are or appear to
be on the gear legs, are no light landings normal ?

2. With the gear up and normal power settings, wouldn't
the speed be much higher?

3 Doesn't the crew both check gear down lights? Has tyhe
USAF stopped using tower controllers procedures, "Check gear
down, cleared to land?"

4. What is the chance they were doing a hoigh speed low
pass and just got too low?



"BT" wrote in message
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| read the web again... it was at Diego Garcia..
| that is in the middle of the INDIAN OCEAN not EUROPE
| and it is not a bf110
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| and "they were not my students"
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| BT
| Retired B-1 Instructor
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| "gatt" wrote in message
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| A friend on another forum posted this in response to an
e-mail received
| about a bf110 recovery in Europe:
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| http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/bombers4.html
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