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Page 6/The Battalion/Thursday, January 21,1988
Pelican receives blan
for 8-1B bomber eras
Air Force officials say bird crashed into
WASHINGTON (AP) — A B-1B
bomber that left Dyess Air Force
Base in Abilene and crashed in Colo
rado in September probably struck a
lone pelican that smashed through a
wing like a “bowling ball,” setting off
a fire that quickly doomed the plane,
the Air Force said Wednesday.
Two of the victims were not in
ejection seats and did not have time
to bail out manually. The third crew
man, the co-pilot, died because his
S ection seat malfunctioned, the acci-
ent investigation report said.
The bomber probably could have
survived if the pelican had struck an
engine or been pulled into one. But
Gen. James W. Meier, Strategic Air
Command assistant director of oper
ations, said at a Pentagon briefing
that the bird apparently struck with
great force in a critical area, setting
off the fire.
The pelican struck the underside
of the wing just above the engine
housings on the right side of the
plane, which was flying about 600
feet above the ground. The plane
was moving at such a high speed —
640 miles per hour — that the bird’s
body tore through the aluminum
skin into the wing, ripping apart crit
ical hydraulic and fuel lines.
“What we believe happened in
this was an extremely unlucky pen
etration of an area that produced a
fire that subsequently burned
through a sufficient number of hy
draulic lines” so that the plane be
came unflyable, Meier said.
“The mass of that bird is like a
bowling ball operating ai the speed
of sound,” he said. “It’s a large, large
projectile.”
The 3-inch-thick accident report
presents a detailed chronolog) and
probable cause based on.interviews
with three surviving creu members,
examination of the crash debris, ex
periments with B-1B simulators and
reports from witnesses on the
ground.
It does not offer a precise expla
nation as to why the co-pilot’s ejec
tion seat failed to operate. Rather, it
suggests there was a malfunction in
volving some switching devices
within the automatic ejection system
that left the co-pilot’s seat in the
plane after his hatch had been blown
clear.
Meier suggested the system could
have been damaged accidentally
during maintenance. Some modifi
cations are being made to the ejec
tion systems on all the B-lBs, Meier
said.
The Air Force said Wednesday it
would spend $62.5 million thi
strengthening certain sections
plane to better withstand
strikes, including the wing s<
above the engines. TheJ|
would spend another}]! I
the modificationstothejv
tern.
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