Grounded following a fire nearly four years ago, the B-2 "Spirit of Washington" lands following its first training flight since the blaze, at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., Dec. 16. Air Force photo / Staff Sgt. Alexandra M. Boutte
The Air Force Totally Lied to You About the Fiery Fate of Its Stealth Bomber -- David Axe, War Is Boring
Swift cover-up as $2-billion warplane goes up in flames
On Feb. 26, 2010, a U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber forward-deployed to America’s giant Pacific air base in Guam was getting ready for a training flight when one of its four jet engines burst into flames.
Firefighters extinguished the blaze and the crew escaped unharmed. A Guam newspaper phoned Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. Kenneth Hoffman, who reassured the paper that the fire was “minor.”
But that was a lie—the depth of which is still becoming apparent, four years later. The cover-up is one of a long chain of obfuscations by the U.S. military in the wake of serious and even fatal accidents involving its most high-tech and expensive warplanes.
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My Comment: So the Pentagon lied .... tell me something that I do not know.
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