'B-1 Pilots Too Fat for Ejection Seats' and Other Embarrassing Snippets Make the Rounds Online
A B-1B bomber crash from last January has been fully investigated, and the online commentariat was quick to dive into the report to see just what went wrong to cause the loss of an irreplaceable strategic bomber. "The accident occurred during the landing sequence following a training flight with another B-1B, also stationed at Ellsworth AFB," said the USAF investigation announcement. It described the incident as a fairly understandable series of events, where a pair of aircraft conducted low-vis approaches into low-laying cloud decks. The second aircraft "attempted to land but struck the ground short of the runway and began skidding across the overrun be