Details are coming in slowly, but the aircraft was "performing normal operations" when it suffered an in flight emergency. It now sounds like a fire. She was able to land at Whiteman AFB (where they are based) but one of the rear mains failed and one of the wings ended up in the dirt, similar to the incident with the "Spirit of Georgia" in Sept of '21 That lost the the port side main gear after part of the spring system failed. they only recently got her patched enough to fly her back to Palmdale to get properly repaired, covered in duct tape.
The crew are safe/ and uninjured but it sounds like the aircraft suffered extensive damage from the main failing and the wing hitting the dirt and the fire.
After losing "Spirit of Kansas" in Guam we were down to 20 aircraft, With Georgia's damage, 19 available airframes it's been hard to keep 10 B-2A Active. But If the fire damage and crash damage is as extensive as it sounds the aircraft might be too structurally compromised to repair. Or even if we wanted to the tooling like with the F-22 may have disappeared.
The crew are safe/ and uninjured but it sounds like the aircraft suffered extensive damage from the main failing and the wing hitting the dirt and the fire.
After losing "Spirit of Kansas" in Guam we were down to 20 aircraft, With Georgia's damage, 19 available airframes it's been hard to keep 10 B-2A Active. But If the fire damage and crash damage is as extensive as it sounds the aircraft might be too structurally compromised to repair. Or even if we wanted to the tooling like with the F-22 may have disappeared.