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  • RIP MY FRIEND.

  • Ефлщ мфь ш екуиф ьфеук мфь оуиуь ндшлщмфжлгю

  • My dad knew those guys. We were stationed at Fairchild & I was born there.

  • Was anyone hurt?

  • Looking at the video, I think there must have been an engine failure, or excessive wind, of a death wish. That is my last word.

  • I think Mr. curtiis80 has got the right point and perspective in this. There is no lift anymore, so the thing falls down on the ground. It is a simple lift vs. speed vs. Earth pull equation

  • I read this pilot was a bit of a cowboy and had had a number of near-misses previously.

  • I'm amazed that this is getting by with absolutely no mention of the KC-135 Tanker that crashed on base just a few short years before. The same low level aerobatic mentality was running wild with the blessings of the wing and base commanders. The 135 crashed on base within 200 yards of an atonement area, Commissary to be exact loaded with shoppers. Besides the on board crew, one person, ironically, a crew member grounded for illness was parked at the crash site watching when it ocurred

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  • @papag1990 Google it:

    U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker crashes at Fairchild Air Force Base, killing seven airmen, on March 13, 1987.

  • The description isn't really fair - the responsible "flight crew" was pilot Bud Holland who had been allowed to continue playing at being a macho asshole by the brass despite his showboating and insane belief in the Stratofortress's ability to defy Mother Physics. One of the guys killed (and the one who bailed out last minute) was a Lt who volunteered to fly with him here only because he refused to let any of his men do so.

  • There is no such thing as a low speed, low altitude 90 deg. bank. I can promise you they were not attempting that...

  • @curtiiis80 That's exactly what he was trying to do.

  • @somnus71 No. He was banking to much at too low speed, yes. But as he did so, his wingtips would have stalled leaving him with no aileron control. Hence the aircraft continues to creep up towards a 90 degree bank angle, and the pilot is left unable to correct the motion. The aircraft falls to the ground as a rock, as no vertical lift component exist anymore. No pilot does a 90 degree bank at low speed. This one pushed the limit too far, and ended up 90 degrees unwillingly.

  • @curtiiis80 Armchair pilot ! 

  • @vecuccio Yeah? Read up on your aerodynamics, perhaps. If you've read any.

  • @curtiiis80

    NOTAM to the internet experten: the B-52 does not have ailerons. Really.

    Please stop spreading BS.

    Thank You.

  • @eaterofclams The B-52H does have spoilerons, yes. Memory lapse. The principle for loss of lift is the same though. B-52 A-F have ailerons.

  • This is me at the end of a friday night.

  • Why did they wait so long to eject?

  • MY GOD humanity is all a bunch of muppets to even let ill trained pilots in such a plane roll on the end of the world

  • Pull Up Pull Up !

  • Anothe fucking muliti miliion dollar tax payer funded moron

  • @032490mf

    Yet, I bet you don't complain about the trillions of tax payer dollars used to buy crack in Detroit. LOL. idiot.

  • Famous last words, Hey guys watch this!

  • Stupidity.. Man this makes me Cry.

  • LOL the movies and games make it look so like safe. LIke in the games and movies they crash but dont explode like that.

  • did pilot die? someone said he lived

  • @mudkipman1

    No, all 4 crewmen died. Someone told you wrong.

  • @Blahblobify yeah, i found out 

  • @mudkipman1 Yeah he walked away with barely a scratch......... Christ.

  • @chuzzwozzer man... stfu. you think your right, but he died you crap. you inconsiderate crap

  • @mudkipman1 Do you understand the concept of sarcasm? Evidently not.

  • whats really sad was that was a flight show and the crews family watched that

  • theres actually a ten minute video of this on youtube somewhere that has the whole, or a good portion anyways, flight video recorded. It's very scary.

  • @tenacious645 watch?v=UJb08ZzejAA

  • When did this happen? Date

  • @sniperkid90 june 24th 1994

  • WOW thats the slimest plane ever. RIP the pilots.

  • If your ever at a fair, see how many candy apples you can stick to your head and neck at one time. And then walk around in a confused manner and say repeatedly, "Penny for your thoughts? Penny for your thoughts?" You might be surprised how many people find it highly amusing. But don't use caramel apples. I hate those damn things!

  • How is it possible that they use this thing??

    Its based on a german Arado jet engined america momber type from ww2...

    & they still fly it???

    The damned things suck horse cocks!!!

  • FAKE

  • @MrMaster767

    trolling unsuccessful

  • @MrMaster767 LOL are you serious? This incident is well documented. You're either trolling or an idiot.

  • @40390576 It was in the news that I had heard about it being suicide. It's still a shame though that he had to be such a dumb pilot and try to fly a plane that I'm sure he knew was not capable of making a 90 degree banked turn so low to the ground.

  • @40390576 Boeing makes the B-52 you dummy. If you have any rational common sense, you would have understood i was referring to manufacturing process.

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  • Lazy Boeing employees

    

  • "Holy shit"!!!!! 

  • Well, I don't even need to ask whether that one was fatal.

  • I remember hearing alot about this crash when it happened and it turned out that the pilot slammed into the ground on purpose to commit suicide, its a shame that he had to take the rest of the aircrew with him though.

  • @Imakeplanesboom absolutely! :)

  • Is this the guy who put his plane into a death spiral over his daughter's baseball game? The same guy who climbed at such an angle that the fuel was coming out of the wing tanks and loosened some rivets. He wanted to be the first 52 pilot to execute a roll. He was known as a 'hot stick.'

  • I think he tried to turn it like a B-2 but the B-2 doesn't have the engines and the cockpit sticking out of the front of the wing.. making it nose heavy instead of balanced

  • @AntDX316 a B-2 cannot be pulled out to quickly, and if a pilot were to stall, the results would be catastrophic. The way the plane was designed would send it into violent pitch oscillations, causing the wings to rip clean off. A pilot first testing it was warned not to stall it. He decided not to listen and did so anyway. The plane was found (I believe) a couple miles before the runway. (he was not landing, this is just where he was performing tests). Significant stress was found at the w

  • @MultiCessnaPilot -ing roots. the ends of the wings were torn off at similar points. Later a comment was found in his journal stating that he was planning to try it. (he wrote it before the flight) He was killed in the crash.

  • @MultiCessnaPilot so it didn't look like he stalled it but tried to wrap it around going down then up?

  • @AntDX316 I don't think I fully understand what you are asking. could you restate? Thanks man! :)

  • @MultiCessnaPilot like how the plane went down.. I think he tried to swing it down then up instead of just straight level

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  • when u pull up like that at 90 degree bank in a plane that big.. 747 size.. the plane drops speed super fast even at a high speed of say 400 knots

  • Unfortunate accident. He obviously thought he was piloting an F-16.

  • My hard earned tax dollars up in smoke. I am not a pilot but i do know that plane was never designed to fly in that manner looks like showboating, and lives lost makes no damn since.

  • @BOOM7STAR welcome to america. everyone showboats.....you just have to ignore it or put up with it.

  • @Imakeplanesboom He was a failed fighter pilot who already had prior incidents in the B-52, he should not have been flying that aircraft. Look up the facts about this incident.

  • Don't be a pussy. I'm a man, I'm a man, and I'll prove it... by banking my 8-engine strategic bomber so there's no lift at very low altitude plus it's stalled. Oh, where did the controls go, and what's the sulfur smell and the guy with the pitchfork?

  • @malamagr lol

  • @malamagr whose the guy with the pitch fork?

  • @STRURM249 I Thinks he meant Sickle

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  • HERE COMES THE ARMY OF BLACK OPS FANBOYS !!! ... oh wait theyre already here!

  • @FormatxCwalk actually I saw ace combat 4 fanboyism. hahaha

  • noob pilot

  • @shadownoob83 Not a noob pilot. A 23 year Air Force veteran and instructor pilot with over 5,200 flight hrs. to his name.

  • How much did he bank? Jesus.

  • Wow..just noticed the pilot ejects before it all hits the ground..then he is lost in the ensuing fireball. RIP men.

  • There are many things she can do, but fly with her wings vertical to the gound?, just past her abilities. A pilot who took it too far..for his crew and his ship. RIP

  • Saw this clip before. The co-pilot actually attempted an eject, but landed in the ball of fire. The pilot was a dangerous guy, and it was said hes going to get someone killed. He was waved off the runway on the first pass and when circling he tried to avoid flying over an ammo bunker, doing so can get a pilot grounded. Which is the reason behind the steep turn. RIP fellas

  • @policevancan I dont think that can be right - if you watch the full video of this accident, he pulls hard dangerous turns for around 10 minutes before crashing. It clearly wasnt a single hard turn to avoid sometting, he does numerous (10 or more) dangerous banks, and is clearly 'showing off'.

  • @Xiolablu3 True, I don't doubt he was showing off. I was just going off a documentary I saw about 4 years back on this very crash, and that's what they claimed

  • @Xiolablu3 ... he was practicing for an airshow ...

  • @policevancan so if he flew over the ammo bunker he wouldn't have crashed?

  • @AntDX316 crashing into the ammo bunker would have caused more destruction

  • @AntDX316 Most likely not because he would have had more room to maneuver.

    @crescentfallen99 True. I imagine the bunker would be huge being as its a B-52 base, (1000lbs bombs and what not) and if it were to be destroyed, we're talking the whole base being a smoking crater on the map.

  • @policevancan if he could fly over the ammo bunker maybe he would have fallen into it if he miscalculated this manuver...

  • @AntDX316 Of course.... which is the reason he couldn't fly over it. If you already knew that why did you ask that in your original comment. Your confusing me my man.

  • @policevancan he should have not did such a steep of a turn at a low alt.. but I think he was at max speed when he pulled that turn.. I've done that same manuver in FSX with the 747 and it turned out the same result.. but that was before I saw this video

  • @policevancan That is absolutely not what happened. He was practicing for an airshow act. The plane was supposed to do a steep turn, but by the time he was past 90°, there was really no chance for recovery. An Airplane with that slow roll rate would not have a chance to get it back to the point where the elevator's maximum deflection would be able to pull it out of a dive. Please research before posting. Thanks you. RIP to all on board.

  • @policevancan Why didn't he just steer less to avoid it, rather than trying to do the clearly impossible?

  • @dunti21 He just messed up man. Everyone messes up sometimes, he was just not in a good situation for him to be messing up.

  • @manishrana51

    Not surprising when you consider plains are naturally flat objects and usually consist of millions of tons of dirt and rock which require much larger control surfaces than the pilot had at his disposal.

  • @ichirofan7 That`s just mean ! arf arf

  • @ichirofan7 lol ... witty ... Although i dont think the guy got it ...

  • Steep turn gone too far with not enough power and lost lift and went down.....It's only natural and too close to the ground to begin with. What a waste....

  • R.I.P

    

  • he deserved that but not the others

  • my dads brother meet the the guy flying the plane he was an asshole hot shot at 0:02 he should have pulled out of the turn but he wanted to be a hot shot and waited to long this is what happens when u try to act cool and act like ur tiz the shit when ur not

  • Mobius 1 crashed

  • @Reymaster61

    classic days..

  • @Reymaster61 Our flight lead would never crash due to human stupidity :O

    He was like Akima from Titan A.E (thumbs up if you agree, or at least know wth im talking about :D)

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  • @mobiussquadron No soup for you. User Policevancam is more correct. . The pilot was an ignorant hot-shot that routinely broke flight safety rules. Many professionals refused to fly with him. The subsequent investigation concluded that the chain of events leading to the crash was primarily attributable to three factors: Holland's personality and behavior, USAF leaders' delayed reactions to earlier incidents involving Holland, and the sequence of events during the aircraft's final flight.

  • @Reymaster61 good old ace combat

    

  • Man, that's so scary to watch. hope they were ok

  • @SimoMcGauneo u r stupid they r K.I.A

  • @UBtherulerzhere Na, they were fine.

  • @SimoMcGauneo oh ok

  • looks like power lines hit by wing. Was already too late from the looks of it

  • To me it looked like at the 5 second mark there was fire or some shiny object/spark on the right wing and then it made a sharp town downwards. I don't know a thing about planes but was bored and I was watching plane crashes in the Hudson River and I saw this one. I don't think this pilot knew what was coming and with all the soundwaves or magnetic fields nowadays, who knows. May they rest in peace and may the truth be found out, unless it already has happened.

  • id rather watch the one with sound

  • pilot forgot to trim rudder obviously

  • I feel bad for 4 of the 5 men on board. I was in a class about this crash. The pilot was known to be a jackass and always tried pushing his 52 beyond the limits. His playing stunts with that thing got him and his crewmen cremated. You NEVER turn an aircraft with a wingspan like that at at severe angles, much less any plane that flys under 600 MPH. People stall and die all the time from trying damn stunts like this.

  • @USMCnBNSFdude Absolutely correct. The pilot was "Bud" Holland and was known to have violated established aircraft operating limitations; once while showing off over his daughter's softball game. His superiors failed to correct his reckless behavior and it cost an innocent crew their lives. A tragically avoidable loss.

  • @USMCnBNSFdude may I remind you that there are MANY planes that fly under 600 MPH capable of a turn like that. Cessna Aerobat for starters. All the way up to a Pitts or an Extra

  • If you ask yourself if you wondered if they survived, you must be some kind of stupid. There is very very very very little chance they survived... If they did not, may they Rest In Peace.

  • i wonder if fly by wire planes of these days allow you to get into such a situation

  • but he die?

  • @muris007 you just died

  • I wonder if they lived????

  • @TheImSuperBoredShow Yes, they lived... right up until the moment that plane hit the ground. 

  • @TheImSuperBoredShow are you kidding!!

  • The pilot was already in trouble when he did a steep bank to go downwind...which is a few seconds before the start of this video...the plane was in an imminent stall and had dropped toward the ground, but momentarily recovered...He should have just rolled the wings level, applied power and called it a day at that point when it first started to drop instead of trying to complete the maneuver and enter a second stall from which there was no margin for recovery...

  • Hmmm not much lift when the wings are 90 degrees to the ground. Only having a few hundred feet to recover isn't good either.

  • How many coke cans did it take to make that B-52? What a waste. OH WELL, they can use the scrap metal to make more coke cans again.

  • How much out of my wallet to crash a B-52?

  • know your boundaries

  • That B-52 was flown against operational procedures at Fairchild AFB Washington on 24 June 1994. It crashed just short of a weapons storage area in which i had worked in in 1981. Very sad to see 4 people perish cause of the pilot's carelessness. I'm sure this video is shown in all training Air Force wide. My late condolences to the families.

  • I don't think it was the "crew" that was so much in error as it was the pilot. The only error the crew made was getting on the aircraft with this guy who had a well established reputation for making dangerous manuvers while at the controls of the aircraft.

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  • @Pandoush

    D00D why would you make up a story like that?

    This is from a crash at Fairchild AFB, they were practicing for an airshow, 4 people were on that plane.

    No B-52 has ever been fitted to be flown by remote control and then crashed at an airbase, that's the most fuckass stoopit claim I've ever heard.

  • "Holland was the designated command pilot for the flight, with McGeehan as the copilot and Wolff designated as a safety observer.

    The flight was also Wolff's "fini flight"—a common tradition in which a retiring USAF aircrew member is met shortly after landing on his or her final flight at the airfield by relatives, friends and coworkers, and doused with water."

    It is sad to think that all his family was in attendance. Tragic

  • @thelleht That would be the difference between first and second-degree murder. Holland committed three counts of second-degree murder, as much as you believe it was manslaughter his reckless abandon makes him a murderer.

  • @Railer505

    I can guarantee you that if he had flown like this just ONCE in the 379th BW @ Wurtsmith AFB in 1971-1972, Colonel Burkhart (later Maj. General) would have that pilot inventorying plumbing supplies at Thule AFB for the rest of his career, AFTER doing KP in the enlisted mess hall for about two years AFTER getting out of jail..

    He would have been grounded so fast by Colonel Burkhart he would have wished he had never learned to fly!

  • @JIM30747 That makes me think that you were there at that base.

    I just checked your channel and i see you are sixty four years young man.

    Which means back in 1972 you might have been there at that base and met that colonel yourself .

    Am i right?

    GOD bless you dude.

  • @USMANchampNO1 Yes, I was at Wurtsmith in 1971-1972. Col Burkhart was the ultimate Wing Commander; respected, but tough. It did not matter what kind of weather was going on, those 52s flew in the worst of it, and Wurtsmith had a lot of snow! I respected the heck out of those guys!

  • @USMANchampNO1

    Thank you!  I was in Wing HQ; never did any flying, however. Was Teletype/Crypto maintenance. And yes, I met Col. Burkhart; He flew P51s during WWII. I had a lot of respect for that man.

  • Bud Holland you are the worst pilot who ever lived you effectively committed three murders and a suicide with your countless acts of sheer stupidity. Burn in hell

  • ooopps I did it again

    RIP

  • All men are cremated equally.

  • @glimmer2158 But a few in a 200 million bomber

  • And just to confirm, there was nothing wrong with the B-52. Lt. Col. Holland just blatantly ignored every basic safety rule and minimum performance standard for the B-52, put it through a maneuver even a basic pilot would know was impossible at that speed and altitude, and flew the aircraft into the ground.

    It's a shame he took three fine Air Force officers with him.

  • An excerpt from a past flight with Lt. Colonel Holland:

    "...the minimum aircraft altitude permitted for that area was 500 feet. Holland's aircraft cleared the ridgeline by only 3 feet. The co-pilot on Holland's aircraft testified that he grabbed the controls to prevent Holland from flying the aircraft into the ridge while the aircraft's other two aircrew members repeatedly screamed at Holland, "Climb! Climb!" Holland responded by laughing and calling one of the crew members "a pussy"."

  • The pilot's name was Bud Holland and he had a history of hot-dogging and ignoring safety rules. But he was a well-connected senior pilot with a lot of friends and his commanders refused to discipline him. See above.

  • why he do that? what plane land sideways? is this space shuttle? why it do that?

  • Who did that plane crash into ground? Why did he do that?

  • QUAAAAAAD...

  • oh fuck Oo

  • last words they heard

    "BANK ANGLE!! BANK ANGLE!! BANK ANG..."

  • IT IS A B-52 BOMBER NOT AN EXTRA 300S YOU DUMBASS!

    R.I.P All the people who died on that plane.

  • owned!

  • Is This Alloud To Be Shown On YouTube???

    If So R.I.P. For The Crew On The B-52 (L)

  • That was a stunt pilot practicing for an airshow the following day. Whats really sad is that his wife and kids were watching when that happened :(

  • The person who was driving that plane thought he could do a loop'd'loop on to the runway but failed. R.I.P to all of those good people that had a total DUMBASS drive their plane!

  • holy thaT WAS AT A 90 degree angle!!U CANT PULL UP ON THAT!AND UR IN A BOMBER WITH NO PARACHUTES ITS OVER AND U WENT HEAD FIRST INTO THE GROUND U GOT OWCCH!

  • ego and macho could cause more disasters :)

  • if you don't trust physics that's what happens ...

    Unfortunate and avoidable

  • bad

  • yes, very brave and sad

  • i bet he ripped the wheel off pulling up on it!

  • If it was carrying nukes, I don't think they would go off... Correct me if I'm wrong.

  • @mynith nukes don't ignite like a normal bomb...they need a complex ignition system to explode...if they were carrying nukes it would've been like a little chernobyl

  • @titow205 complex ignition system. all they do is have a smaller explosive set off the larger one otherwise nothing would happen

  • will it weld ?

  • Good thing it didn't have any BOMBS !