losing your wings.....

~^ beancounter ~^ wrote:
lifted from the report....


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On the 24th of June 1994, Czar 52, a B-52H assigned to
the 325th Bomb Squadron, 92d Bomb Wing, Fairchild Air
Force Base, WA, launched at approximate 1358 hours Pacific
Daylight Time (PDT), to practice maneuvers for an upcoming
airshow. The aircrew had the planned and briefed a profile, through
the Wing Commander level, that grossly exceeded aircraft and
regulatory limitations. Upon preparing to land at the end of
the practice airshow profile, the crew was required to execute
a "go-around" or missed approach because of another aircraft
on the runway. At mid-field, Czar 52 began a tight 360 degree
left turn around the control tower at only 250 feet altitude above
ground level (AGL). Approximately three quarters of the way
through the turn, the aircraft banked past 90 degrees, stalled,
clipped a power line with the left wing and crashed. Impact
occurred at approximately 1416 hours PDT. There were no
survivors out of a crew of four field grade officers.

The irony is that Fairchild had suffered a tragedy earlier when some
nut with a gun shot up a few people, and then himself. The airshow was
supposed to make people feel better.