All four crew members ejected safely, the Air Force says. Visibility was poor with freezing temperatures and low clouds at the time, automated equipment indicates.
  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    142·
    10 months ago

    Good on the Bones crew - all safe. Doesn’t really say what happened, but ejecting on landing must be a little hairy.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      I don’t know about the B-1 specifically, but I know a lot of military aircraft use a “zero zero” rejection seat, meaning it will still work correctly at zero speed and zero altitude. I first learned about them in the late 80s so I assume they’re pretty widespread by now.

      • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
        23·
        10 months ago

        Yeah but, for zero zero to work the margin of error is very low over the runway. A whole lot of things have to go exactly right in an extremely short period of time.

  • ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.ml
    4·
    10 months ago

    “Visibility was poor with freezing temperatures and low clouds at the time.” I thought something that costs ~$(insert shit-ton amount here) would have a world class ILS in use