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KUAM News has learned that a B-2 stealth bomber crashed at Andersen Air Force Base this morning. The incident happened at around 10:45am Saturday, as information we've gathered so far indicates that a lead B-2 aircraft took off and became safely airborne, but when minutes later a second bomber took off for reasons that are unknown at this point, that aircraft crashed.
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The radar-evading bombers, each of which cost more than $1.2 billion,
drop 500-pound and 2,000-pound dummy concrete bombs
at Pohakuloa Training Area on the Big Island in more than 20-hour roundtrips from Guam.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
Actually it sounds like they were on their way home.
Reports are saying that it was their last take off, at the end of a 4 month deployment.
That's the most dangerous time for any unit. Everyone is ready to go home,
and thinking about being with families again, and not paying attention.
The aircraft was one in a flight of four B-2s that was returning to Whiteman AFB, Mo., following a deployment that began Oct. 5, Czerwinski said. They were being replaced in the constant bomber presence role at Anderson by six B-52s.