just have two crew members. incredibly in the case of this crash, this fire ball, both of the crew members on board that b-2 survived. when the the plane started to crash, when its wing went down as it was trying to take off, the two crew members of that plane were able to eject out of the plane. thankfully they got out. they survived. thankfully also, the air force says there were no live bombs on board that b-2 bomber when it crashed. that of course could have been catastrophic given the fire ball, the impact you saw there. so that crash of that b-2 bomber, that was a big deal. for one thing, that crash was a billion dollar crash. billion with a b. each one of these planes costs well over $1 billion. think about that for a second. i mean just for perspective, you ve heard how they re going to cut the entire budget for the national endowment for the arts, got to slim down, can t afford it anymore. one of these planes is ten times the annual budget of the
you blackmail one of the pilots. one is in on it. there are 1 million different ways you can get in on it. a million opportunities for it all to go terribly wrong. one of the points that people are not focused at all on. do you know how much one of these planes costs? $300 million is the average cost for this plane. that s a heck of a lot of money. i don t know if there is any type of secondary market. what would you do with this? could it be a crime? we are all focused, because our orientation is on terrorism. it may be something else. the real question becomes, what is the motivation or the leverage factors you could use? looking into the background is so crucial. you still have to do something with all the poor souls on board. you talk with aviation experts and you say if it went up to 45,000 feet, it doesn t
the pilot tries to correct but the plane starts to come back down and boom, ultimately the plane drags its wing and you see it explode. this was a b-2 bomber. a b-2 has a crew of just two people. these are big planes but they just have two crew membe. incredibly in the case of this cras this fire ball, both of the crew members on board that b-2 survived. when the the plane started to crash, when its wing went down as it was trying to take off, the two crew members of that plane were able to eject out of the plane. thankfully they got out. they survived. thankfully also, the air force says there were no live bombs on board that b-2 bomber when it crashed. that of course could have been catastrophic given the fire ball, the impact you saw there. so that crash of that b-2 bomber, that was a big deal. for one thing, that crash was a billion dollar crash. billion with a b. each one of these planes costs well over $1 billion.
board that b-2 bomber when it crashed. that of course could have been catastrophic given the fire ball, the impact you saw there. so that crash of that b-2 bomber, that was a big deal. for one thing, that crash was a billion dollar crash. billion with a b. each one of these planes costs well over $1 billion. think about that for a second. i mean just for perspective, you ve heard how they re going to cut the entire budget for the national endowment for the arts, got to slim down, can t afford it anymore. one of these planes is ten times the annual budget of the national endowment for the arts, one plane. in part because of that enormous cost, there are n many of these planes. our entire national fleet of them consists of 21 planes, and then that one crashed in 2008 and that means we re down to 20 of them in total in the whole