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    Gotta Fly, to Old to drive. BIG IRISH's Avatar
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    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. If we split this 4 ways
    we can have it paid off by the time we retire.

    Maybe We shouldn't have went to the O Club before we took off.

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    Diego Garcia? I'll bet it was a suicide attempt....

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    Well, at least they remembered to lower the flaps

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