Fairchild AFB had 2 big tragedies within months. Both

by Catoosa, Sunday, September 22, 2013, 21:44 (4023 days ago) @ Rob Leahy

Yep, another sad story of command failure there. That pilot was known to be a fool who routinely violated flight regulations, and many crewmen had refused to fly with him. The WC had tried repeatedly to get him grounded, but the guy was a hotshot with a big reputation and the generals wouldn't go along with it.

The hotshot was supposedly practicing for an air show, and the WC flew with him because he did not want to assign another pilot to what he suspected would be a suicide mission. The idiot very nearly crashed that B-52 into a high-security nuclear weapons storage site. Some debris from the plane did in fact land inside the nuke storage area.

That's another one they don't want to talk much about.