http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-20...n-southeast-montana/
Peter.

I'm glad all the crew got out, but holy cow the only thing needed for clean up appears to be a bunch of scoop shovels:





Pretty cool pic of the jettisoned pod:

Commonly referred to in business as a "Smoking hole".

Not many places besides Montana, a horse would show up at a crash emergency response site.

Grizz

I've been hunting in remote hills of eastern Wyoming and had a bomber come over at very low altitude (under 500 feet?) as they practiced their nap of the earth radar avoidance technique. I was amazed at how quiet they were in that coast mode and how chilling it was to have one of those ghost over my head.

I suspect this one developed whatever problem it had at rather low altitude and that doesn't give them much time for problem solving.

There was a major joint services wargame off of the Louisiana coast when I was a lad working offshore. Probably 79, 80 or 81. I remember sitting on the bit of a barge fishing and a series of B-52s came overhead in a simulated low-level attack. They were really quiet on approach, like you say. I grew up on air bases, very familiar with jets on approach and I was still startled at how close they were before I heard them approaching.