[z3n]

The plane, which cost about $100 million, kept going for about 60 miles after the pilot ejected

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Did the pilot panic???
Why would it keep going for 60 miles if this was a dire eject situation?

[Yo-Yo]

Bummer. The B-1 has about the highest maintenance hours to flight hours ratio in the Air Force, so not only is this a hull loss, it is a loss of one of the 50% of B-1Bs that were mission-capable aircraft.

[Wilderness Conservative]

I wonder what Red area they were training to bomb.

[smokingfrog]

Well…. I bet that was exciting.
Hope everyone is okay.

[William of Barsoom]

Doesn’t sound like much of a “landing” if the hull was a total loss. Sounds like a plain-vanilla “crash.” —Just maybe on the airport’s grounds.

So, was it a “crash” or a “landing”?

[Dacula]

The Pilot and crew were running late to the briefing on the latest tranny policy update from the Biden administration.

[Colorado Doug]

But was the crew sufficiently diverse? Were there enough trans recruits with the right amount of melenin on board? That’s what really matters.

[pfflier]

This appears to be a landing related incident when the plane was low and slow and in bad weather. Initially I would suspect assymetrical thrust due to engine failure possibly bird ingestion. It happens.

The good news here is that ACES II ejection seats worked and the crew survived. They get to go home tonight to their families.

[rbg81]

Those aircrew were very, very lucky. Ejecting is better than crashing, but still an extremely hazardous thing to do. Even if you live, your body can still suffer severe damage.

[Fledermaus]

They ejected after the crash?

Who writes the headlines these days? Chimps on acid?