Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 20 hours ago
This video gives a brief description of what happed to flying wing YB-49 number 2 on June 5, 1948. While practicing stall maneuvers and stall recovery, the outer panels of the wings were torn off of the aircraft, causing it, and its crew of five to fatally crash into the Mojave Desert ground below.
Crash Site Location:
(35.0425505, -117.9925814)
Road to location:
(35.0175488, -117.9893734)
This video gives a brief description of what happed to flying wing YB-49 number 2 on June 5, 1948. While practicing stall maneuvers and stall recovery, the outer panels of the wings were torn off of the aircraft, causing it, and its crew of five to fatally crash into the Mojave Desert ground below.
Crash Site Location:
(35.0425505, -117.9925814)
Road to location:
(35.0175488, -117.9893734)










