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Mid-flight non-combat malfunctions, mishaps, and blunders, occur
frequently in the USAF during routine training and utility
flights-sometimes unfortunately with the loss of life and regularly
with the destruction of a military aircraft with a value of tens of
millions-of-dollars. In the most extreme case presented here a B-2
Spirit bomber crashed soon after takeoff and was destroyed with a
value of $2.2 billion. The events surrounding such accidents are
meticulously gathered by USAF Investigators and a report is
published in each case. Dr Bond has collected these reports over a
number of years including some made available to him following
FOI-Freedom of Information-requests made directly to the relevant
US Air Base. The original official accident reports are rife with
military jargon and acronyms rendering them near-impenetrable to
the lay-reader. Dr Bond has written up forty of the most indicative
reports as a series of accessible-but-comprehensive case histories
in plain non-technical language. The causes of such blunders and
mishaps are often surprising and sometimes horrifying:
bird-strikes, joy-riding, unauthorized maneuvers, pilot
disorientation, or more prosaically, an unseen binoculars-case
blocking the action of a plane's joystick or unexpected moisture in
an air-pressure gauge.
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