B52 Crash Czar 52 Fairchild Air Force Base, WA

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Thirty-two people died at Virginia Tech when Seng-Hui Cho's exposure from Subliminal Distraction created delusions of persecution.

Lt. Col Holland's exposure from Subliminal Distraction altered his perception of what his B52 could do.

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"On June 24, 1994 Lt. Col. Holland was practicing maneuvers for an air show. While executing a "go-around" at 250 feet altitude, the plane stalled and fell out of the air. I remember what ran through my thoughts the first time I saw the crash video now available on the Internet. A B52 just could not do what the pilot tried to do."

"This page explains why he thought that plane could perform the "Unapproved Maneuver."

This page is not about the failure of command. I have no interest in why Lt, Col. Arthur Holland was in command of the aircraft. The decisions he made that day and on several previous occasions leads me to believe he had suffered a subtle change in mental state.

He believed the plane could do things that were physically impossible.

If you want to understand the power of Subliminal Distraction remember the paranoid psychotic rant of Seng-Hui Cho.

The Virginia Tech shooter had created the "special circumstances" for Subliminal Distraction exposure.

Outcome of the unapproved maneuver.

The maneuver was a 65 degree banked turn at 250 feet altitude.

The B52 does not have ailerons to allow a recovery from a bank exceeding 45 degrees.

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Six  New Developments (Bookmark link to Bottom of this page)

Subliminal Distraction and the Space Station There have been mental breaks on space missions. Changes to new page

Flight 19, Dec 1945, five Avenger bombers disappeared.  Changes to new page.

Click this line for Screaming Seaman and Combat Fatigue "Screaming Seaman" is a panic attack that happens on submarines.

Mental break aboard Soyuz 21  Link to bottom of this page.

There has been a communication from an associate of Lt. Col. Holland.

Recent news item Pilots and Schizophrenia.  (Bookmark link to bottom of this page)

New B52 photo links including cockpit photos- see links section.

Captain Button - I may have found what caused Captain Button's A-10 crash.

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There are now  links to several sites and  versions of the Crash Video in the links section

Still photos of the Fairchild crash have been added to the links

There is a  new  link to a new B52 crash similar to Czar 52.

It was a radio controlled Model.

The size of the B52 aircraft does not matter.

There are no ailerons to allow a recovery when the attitude of the plane exceeds a 45 degree bank.

Second Suspicious Crash: Egypt Air 990 

I have known about this crash for some time but  just found the NTSB release of the final report.  Until I have time to add a page use this URL to read that report. Hint: Start with the summary at the bottom of the page. The Adobe file, linked at the top of the page, has illustrations.

  The information is gathered from the Cockpit Voice Recorded, which worked until the relief pilot shut off the engines. http://www.ntsb.gov/Publictn/2002/aab0201.htm

A reenactment video of the Egypt Air 990 story is available from the National Geographic Channel. Today you can see a short clip on line by clicking the link below right. I didn't find the program video for sale But it may be available. It introduces several new factors. That the visiting pilot had arranged to meet his son on arrival in Egypt. He was transporting four tires back to Egypt for the son. This was to be his last flight to the United States because of his sexual advances to staff at hotels. The Egypt Air official who notified him of this company decision a day earlier was on the flight raising the possibility of workplace violence and suicide.

The Search Term "Egypt" in the "search all video" window,  will bring up the video segment.

 http://cgi.nationalgeographic.com/channel/video/cgi-bin/NGPortal.pl?bitrate=400k

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These site pages, entire site, are efforts to compile data as it is uncovered. I want to know more about what happened in the CZAR 52  cockpit on previous flights. This can only come from someone who served  with Lt. Col. Holland. If you have input or comments leave a message  for  Researcher. If you know someone with this information send them to the site.

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The subject of this site is a known conflict of human physiology

The phenomenon explored on this site, VisionAndPsychosis.Net ( link-home page)  is caused by that conflict of human physiology. You will be lost if you have not read enough to understand the phenomenon. This is a known problem in Civil Engineering, Close-Spaced-Workstation design, Cubicles. Engineers have been designing workstations for fifty years to account for and prevent injury from this phenomenon of physiology. (Read The Modern Cubicle page- link to manufacturers.) 

The Conflict of Physiology

Although you can ignore peripheral vision reflexes which break your concentration you cannot stop "subliminally seeing" the movement which triggers those reflexes. There is no way to turn off the sensor cells on the rods and cones of your retina. While you conscious mind can attach a zero level of attention to anything in your vision field if stimulus strikes the sensor cells neural impulses go to your brain on their normal channels.

Beginning with different sensor cells sight exists in two channels. The P channel carries color and shape information. The M channel carries movement and position information. Detected movement in far-peripheral vision which triggers the "startle reflex" consists of only movement and position data.

Sight is not sensory adaptable. The vision system to detect threat movement and create the reflex operates subliminally. The victim of this phenomenon is unaware anything is happening to them. Persons sitting beside a victim are also unaware anything is happening.  In the business office the time necessary to create a mental break may be as short as a few days. The Cubicle was the solution for the business office.

In the case of  ICU Psychosis it happens within the period of  a stay in the hospital ICU Unit. ( As many as one in three ICU patients experience this problem.) Most ICU Psychosis victims completely recover once they leave the hospital.

There have been psychotic mental breaks for attendees of a Landmark Education seminar. The seminar is held for ten to twelve hours each day for three days. Previous investigations could not find out why these mental events happen. Landmark admits the happen and warn participants about them on their notices page.

This phenomenon happening in the lecture setting of this seminar establishes that classrooms have exposure from Subliminal Distraction.

Scroll down the Landmark page until your reach the quoted number "6" warning paragraph.

http://www.landmarkeducation.com/display_content.jsp?top=24&mid=343610

The phenomenon is 'Accidental Operant Conditioning.' It can happen anywhere the conditions exist to create it. Different outcomes are caused by the rate, timing, and distribution over time of the stimulus caused by a failed peripheral vision reflex.  A slow but persistent stimulation can happen over many days/weeks/years.  (Read the Barney and Betty Hill Alien Abduction case.)

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There is now a site summary page, outline. You may download and print that page as long as the URL is included as author and copyright owner.  It is about four pages partially double spaced. It focuses on college suicides.            Summary and Outline

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Qi Gong and Kundalini Yoga Psychotic Episodes are key to understanding the theory on this page.

Both  exercises are performed in groups possibly with an instructor. Each person can "subliminally see" the movement of the person next to them. (Side by side seating in a cockpit allows this to happen if either person enters a private state of concentration.) Concentration to direct and balance the flow of Chee in the body while performing Qi Gong is enough to allow this to happen. Concentration and eyes open meditation allows this in Kundalini Yoga. The eyes-closed meditation periods spreads the threat movement incidents over time in Yoga.

.The psychotic altered mental state happens when a threshold of stimulation in Subliminal Peripheral Vision is reached and the dissociative/psychotic episode begins to happen. 

There are extensive links on both of these pages. I cannot put everything on each page.

Kundalini Yoga    Qi Gong Psychotic Reaction 

ICU Psychosis  One in three ICU patients experience the sudden onset of psychotic delirium. This happens  within the period of the ICU stay. Most recover quickly after leaving the ICU. This is the same problem engineers discovered fifty years ago. Office workers  were sitting in workstations, ICU patients are in beds, that is the only difference.

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B 52 pilots sit in each other's Subliminal Peripheral Vision. When they actively fly the plane they constantly interact and no peripheral vision reflex is generated. When either enters a state of "private concentration" that person engages the mental state necessary to cause repeating, subliminal, peripheral vision reflexes generated by the movement of the other pilot creating "failed peripheral vision reflexes."

The ICU Psychosis problem demonstrates how quickly this can happen with around-the-clock stimulation. All three cases, ICU Psychosis, Kundalini Yoga, and QiGong exercise demonstrate that very little in mental concentration is necessary to cause the situation in which Accidental Operant Conditioning can happen. Daydreaming with your eyes open may be enough.

The meaning of the internal brain signal, stimulation,

intended to create a reflex,

changes due to each persons belief set and mental situation:

There is no reason to believe that the general meaning or sense of the raw internal brain signal, generated in the attempt to create a  peripheral vision reflex, is usually perceived as anything other than a vague sense of being watched or of something being behind you. 

Operant conditioning subliminally applied to human consciousness can reinforce beliefs or mental states of the victim. This happens because the victim's brain subconsciously uses the extra input, stimulus, to conceive and construct their reality.  Normally your brain constructs your reality from memory, (prior experience), and input from sensors, eyes, ears, and skin. There is another system including ambient vision and the balance properties of your inner ear which orient you to the outside world. (US Air Force site Spatial Disorientation ) (Link will be added at the bottom of this page.)

 If the rate, or intensity of stimulation over a short period, such as the business office or ICU unit experience,  is large enough a mental break will happen quickly and there will be a complete recovery.

But if the subliminal stimulus is lighter or spread over a longer time your brain learns or remembers the stimulus and associates it with contemporaneous activity. That creates an abnormal situation and false reality which is eventually psychotic.

 It is important to understand that the stimulus does not create these situations. It acts against currently held beliefs modifying them raising the intensity of concern to  psychotic levels.

(An example is mass school, and workplace shootings. They  are possible outcomes when the stimulus is subliminally perceived to reinforce an ongoing dispute, reaction to bullying, teenage angst, or some other grievance.)

This crash by Lt Col Holland may not be the only case. The incident with Captain Button has similar overtones but no direct evidence. The five week period Captain Button had been flying the A10 is an adequate gestation period. But I have not found anything in an A10 cockpit that would blink or move to create stimulus in Subliminal Peripheral Vision. There have been several crashes of A10's.

 School  shootings and other events are rare because the stimulus and pre-existing stress situation must happen together. Then be maintained long enough to create the dissociative or psychotic episode.  Read entries of Culture Bound Syndromes, 'Amok,' on the Chaco Canyon page. Think of the phrase 'running amok.' ( Read the paragraphs about the Qi-Gong exercise form, Culture Bound Syndromes, also Chaco Canyon page.) New pages are linked above. Each case will be different because each person has unique beliefs and perceptions. The  problem in this case, which caused Lt. Col. Holland's crash,  was the additional meaning created by the interaction of the operant conditioning  with his contemporaneous activities and his personality traits. (Read the 'snake in the grass' example on the Everquest Connection page.)

The Demonstration page has a psychology exercise so that you can experience the fading to extinction of notice of movement in your Subliminal Peripheral Vision. Understanding the phenomenon is not rocket science but there is a learning curve in psychology.

This phenomenon works to create or change beliefs,

 when Operant Conditioning usually does not:

Operant Conditioning does not work well with humans because we have knowledge of self and of our surroundings. We are aware when we "snap the red rubber band'` on our wrist each time there is a craving for a cigarette. Although we see the oinking pig in the refrigerator each time we go for a snack, we are aware that we placed it there.

 Lab animals, white rats, do not have knowledge of self. They can be trained to play basket ball, run strings through pipes to pull optic cables in existing buildings or trained to respond to directional signals to explore earthquake damaged buildings searching for survivors. Accidental Operant Conditioning works because it occurs as the output of the subliminal detection of movement to create a peripheral vision reflex.

If it were possible to subliminally stimulate someone with an adverse signal both of the two examples above would work on humans. It would logically follow that anorexia nervosa  and bulimia nervosa, Culture Bound Syndromes of North America and Western Europe, are actually learned behaviors. (See the linked pages, Glossary of C-BS's from the Chaco Canon paragraphs on Culture-Bound Syndromes. There the two eating disorders are considered as C-BS's)

Small animal training  is done using a Skinner  Box, named for B F Skinner. You could say that the phenomenon 'accidentally' turns your head into a self stimulating skinner box. The subject in the box is your consciousness. The stimulus is the randomly generated internal brain signal. A random pattern of stimulation is the most persistent type. 

The reward system is used to train police dogs, drug sniffing dogs, and accelerant or explosive sniffing dogs. The dogs find the contraband because they know there will be a reward when they succeed. The rubber band snap and oinking pig are examples of adverse stimulation. Accidental Operant Conditioning can be either be a reward or punishment depending on how the mind perceives the subliminal stimulus.

Lt. Col. Holland and the crash

Lt. Col. Holland is reported to have been a "jerk." Posts on bulletin boards and forums cite that he parked his car in unauthorized places just because he could. He had an ambition to be the first person to "roll a B52." When I read in Major  Kern's paper that Col Holland put his plane in a "vertical" position I did not under stand what that meant. Did it mean that Col Holland had been practicing the 90 degree bank or some other maneuver? Was it the wings or fuselage that were  in the vertical position?

Any such maneuver would exceed the design limits of the B52. The potential is that every time he attempted unauthorized maneuvers he damaged the plane by overstressing structural components. Once damaged that plane does not "heal." It would continue to accumulate cracks or stress damage to those weakened components.

Why would any sane person do that?

Col Holland did it because over time he had been subtly conditioned so that he believed the plane could do what he attempted. This happened because operant conditioning worked subconsciously to shape his personal belief set. It effected  his ability to competently fly the plane.  His general personality traits would have entered the picture and both contributed to this conditioning and be reinforced by the stimulus. In his mind he delusionally, psychotically, believed the plane could perform the maneuvers he demanded of it. This psychotic belief system is so narrowly focused that it is undetectable by outside observers unless the nature of the belief system exposes the condition. This is an altered mental state.

If someone claims to be able to walk on water or flap their arms and fly,  we would all understand that their belief is psychotic. We cannot 'open the box' and look inside to detect less obvious conditions. In cases such as Col Holland's this can lead to fatal events.

Maura Murray's case on the Missing Students page , Michelle Gluckman's bizarre death on the College Suicides page, or the disappearance of Mary Shotwell Little and Diane Shields, Atlanta, 1965/67,  all have hints that they too were victims of the phenomenon.

I selected these examples because of the amount of information on each. An email from Suzanne Lyall's father, describing the  installation of her computer, is the only communication I have that indicates any of the missing students were victims. Maura Murray's family has made contact but I have no additional information from them. The list of requested information is at the top of both the Missing Students and College Suicides pages. In the case of Tommy Stein I saw the evidence on the 48 Hours Investigates TV show.

Proof cannot exist until these cases are investigated using knowledge of the phenomenon.

Where did Col Holland experience this mind altering phenomenon? Probably sitting in the cockpit. When pilots and co-pilots interact flying the plane peripheral vision reflexes are not generated. The mental state which can lead to the phenomenon must be one of concentration to the point that everything outside the sphere of concentration is ignored. Until the invention of the auto-pilot this mental state would rarely be engaged by a pilot. (One possible exception is  viewing the heads-up display in the A10, Captain Button Mysterious Disappearances page.) Other wise, activity while off duty can also cause the phenomenon to be created. The facts of the incident lead me to believe the stimulation happened in the cockpit.

I am currently searching for other crashes in which distraction or miss perception could have been a factor. Those cases would be the place to start looking for a behavior of a pilot or co-pilot which would create the necessary concentration to achieve the conditions to create the phenomenon.

Physics

When Lt. Col. Holland performed that unauthorized maneuver it was a simple exercise in physics, aerodynamics and force vectors. The plane stalled and fell out of the air. I remember what ran through my thoughts the first time I saw the crash video now on the Internet. A B52 just could not do what the pilot tried to do.

 Under conditions which would allow for corrections due to wind, air speed, and air density what he tried might be possible at a much higher altitude, but not at 250 feet.

The lift of the airfoil is always perpendicular to that body and its force vector points in the direction of  lift, up relative to the earth  in most cases.  The force Gravity creates should be considered pointed to the center of the earth from the center of gravity of the plane.  The force vector of Gravity should point down relative to the Earth and airfoil. The two forces cancel each other in level flight. In other attitudes of the craft they exhibit a complex interaction  because they no longer lie on single continuous straight line.

When the plane banks the lift force which balanced gravity in level flight is split. Now part of the force pulls the plane in the tight turn and part still attempts to cancel gravity. At forty five degrees the math is simple. Half of the force would be used to hold the plane in the bank and half left to support the plane against Gravity. The plane must begin to drop unless some measure is applied to prevent the fall.

This was the cause of the death spiral of John Kennedy Jr. He was unaware that removing the auto pilot could cause the plane to sink as the wings banked.

At ninety degrees of bank, when the wings are vertical rather that horizontal and parallel to the horizon there is no force offsetting gravity. That force vector has been reduced to ZERO. Without correction, possibly using engine thrust in a slight yaw maneuver to hold altitude, the plane begins to sink.

At 250 feet altitude there is no correction space between the plane and the ground. The fuselage was at 250 feet. Subtract half the wing span to determine the distance from the lower wing tip to ground.

 This is so simple for a trained pilot, why did it happen? It happened because Lt. Col. Holland had been exposed to stimulation in Subliminal Peripheral Vision for many years.

This copyright protected site by Major Tony Kern, United States Air Force  was used to gather data on the events surrounding the crash.

You can read about the six previous incidents on Major Kern's page until I am well enough to finish this page.

http://s92270093.onlinehome.us/crmdevel/resources/paper/darkblue/darkblue.htm

Incidents reported by Major Kern: There is much more detail on Kern's site.

 May  19,1991  At the 91 Air Show at Fairchild AFB Holland attempted the first low pass over the crowd and banking low altitude turn.

July 12, 1991  During a change of command ceremony Holland banked at more than 45 degrees, and performed a wingover.

May 17,1992  Again there were banks of more than 45 degrees, a high speed pass down the runway, a climb out of more than 60 degrees up angle and a wingover at the apex of the climb.

April 14/15, 1993 While on maneuvers  at Medina de Farallons, Guam, Holland flew close formation with another B52 to take pictures, allowed pictures to be taken of live ordinance leaving the bomb racks. (Photographer was exposed in the event of a  failure or sudden lurch of  the plane.)

August 8, 1993 Fairchild AFB  Holland again flew turns and banks of over 45 degrees. Engaged a climb out of over 80 degrees up angle. (Major Kern notes that this is only 10 degrees shy of vertical. this is the maneuver I did not completely understand.)

March 10, 1994  Yakima Bombing Range A photographer filmed bombing runs at 30 feet altitude.(500 was minimum for that range.) A crewmember estimated a ridge was cleared by only 3 feet. The co-pilot intervened to pull back on the yoke and increase altitude. Photographers stopped filming and ran  believing the plane would impact their location. After this flight crewmembers refused to fly with Holland again. The second link to video of the crash has footage of this event.

FYI 30 feet is a two story house with chimney or three lengths of electric conduit. I have ham radio antennas 55 feet high. Another way you can envision that height is the roof inside a Home Depot, Lowe's or other standard warehouse outlet building is over 30 feet. A pass at that height would not have cleared those type buildings.

June 17, 1994 Air Show Practice Fairchild AFB  In a briefing Holland announced he would fly 65 degree banked turns. The wing commander stated that banks were to limited to 45 degrees and pitch angles to 25 degrees. Major Kern mentions that given Lt. Col. Holland's experience and flying hours in a B52 there is no possibility of a mistake or pilot error.

All members of the flight crew were killed in the crash.

Posts on forums about this B52 crash cite the fact that the B52 does not have wing control surfaces, ailerons, needed to  correct the flight path Holland had  put the plane into. There  was absolutely no way that plane could achieve the stunt he attempted.

Holland is cited has having more hours in a B52 than any other pilot.

In a normal mental state he had  to know that the stunt was impossible.

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Even with the wide range of pages I have the site still does not fit each case I find to investigate. Therefore, the page subjects may not fit your case if you have involvement with the phenomenon. The pages are arranged around examples of how the phenomenon has effected individuals and human populations through history.

If you have not read the pages linked above you will be lost when I explain the connection between the phenomenon and air crashes. The next section is a brief restatement of the history of the phenomenon.

Click this line to skip that history.

About fifty years ago a group of men saw the opportunity to create a new business. They build chairs, desks, and tables for  business offices. They hired designers and engineers to design moveable workstations that could be customized, assembled in different configurations, for each office situation.  When the first new workstation designs were implemented some of the workers had bizarre, dissociative, or psychotic episodes.

The problem was solved. They learned that closely spaced workers who must invest deep concentration to do their work, knowledge workers, were subliminally seeing movement to create peripheral vision reflexes. Due to other features of human physiology the workers could ignore the distraction  but they could not stop seeing the triggering stimulus/movement.

The designs were altered so that workstations for knowledge workers blocked peripheral vision as the worker entered the protected workspace.

Engineers are practical people. When the problem was solved for office furniture manufacturers the engineers moved on. Over the years their designs have been refined past the initial Cubicle design. Now Cubicles are a subset of Systems Furniture. Systems Furniture includes Cubicle Level Protection for knowledge workers.

None of the original investigators had the opportunity to closely study an individual case. They were never there at the onset to watch the mental break begin and progress. They failed to understand that the problem is 'accidental operant conditioning.'

When the subliminal internal brain signal to cause a peripheral vision reflex is perceived by  your brain as reinforcement for worries, fears, desires, or your personal belief system operant conditioning happens.

Your brain assembles your reality based on  memory and input from sensors. This phenomenon injects a extra input to that process. Your brain then attempts to integrate that subliminally perceived sensation into your reality. The general sense of the signal appears to be a sense of being watched, or of something being behind you. I believe this causes the extreme paranoia I find associated with the problem. There is no reason to believe there is any complex communication possible through the subliminal stimulation.

When MMORPG players created defective game playing workstations and there was stimulus/movement in or near the workstation they experienced the signal as part of the game play. Everquest Connection Those few effected players experienced something none of the almost half million other players experienced playing the games. The input having a general sense of being watched was integrated so that the players brain understood it to be a part of game play. That created the apparent addiction blamed on Sony and Everquest.

Seriously effected players had some version of the mental break those engineers discovered years ago. Different levels, strengths, lengths and spacing of the stimulation will create different outcomes. The business office experience of stimulation was usually eight hours daily, five days each week, and for varying periods of a few weeks to possibly two years. (Mary Shotwell Little Example)

Links

(Under construction- there are still links being added as I have time  to search the Internet.)

Line Drawings Copyright Free from NASA

Dryden Gallery, Dryden Flight Research Center

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Graphics/

Large photo of cockpit.   http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/B-52/Small/EC96-43814-1.jpg

 B52 Gif  http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Graphics/B-52/Small/EG-0006-01.gif

B52 Photo collection Includes cockpit photos

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/B-52/index.htmliat

Strategic Air Command

There are galleries and links to other sites related to the B52 but this is a private site not affiliated with the Air Force.

http://www.strategic-air-command.com/home.htm

SPG Media PLC

There is a photo of the cockpit from behind the pilots on this page.

http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/b52/b526.html

Darwin Aviation Heritage Museum

The picture here is from a disassembled B52 cockpit. The point of view is from outside the disassembled plane on the right side.

http://www.nachohat.org/top_end_2001/PIC00020.jpg

NASA Image search page

http://nix.nasa.gov/

Still Photos

Thumbnail of both photos

http://w1.rob.com/pix/B52_crash

  View  -top of wing showing spoiler deployment http://w1.rob.com/pix/B52_crash/B52CRSH1?full=1

  Knife edge - showing flaps deployed http://w1.rob.com/pix/B52_crash/B52CRSH2

Video links

These  links have the same basic clip. The second site has an extended clip including the low level pass that caused photographers to stop filming and run. The crawl or text-over video refers to a report by Scott Pelley.

   Short clip of crash only.   http://www.airextreme.de/B-52dwn_.avi 

Longer clip with Scott Pelley narration. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7aLEKBlhNk

       You will not believe this video clip, the low level pass at the Yakima bombing range is the second clip on this file.

         http://airside.paradise.net.nz/video/B52%20bomber%202.wmv

Bed and Breakfast Inn site with aviation videos page.

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/aviation_videos.htm
 

Videos above  run in Media Player. There is a link for Real Player version but the image was missing the last time I accessed the site.

Warning

   I could not get this clip to run., no program.  Picked up virus during attempt to run this segment.????  http://www.biic.de/aviation-museum/crashes/videos/b52_1.mov

Real Player links  I did not run these I don't have Real Player.

Simradar.Com

http://www.simradar.com/NewImage/2003-12-13.html

New Crash Video - RC Model B52 crash similar to Czar 52

RCGroups.Com

Returning the link- We are getting hits from this site. This was an expensive crash for the owner of the model plane. There is crash video here too. Comments are that the overcast conditions caused the operator to miss-direct the model. Once it was in the extreme bank position there was no possibility of a recovery. The 23 foot wingspan model, like the real plane, had no ailerons.

    Owner comments http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=266895&page=2&pp=15&highlight=B52+Crash

Top of the thread several pages and pictures.  http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=270028&page=1

                   Video   http://www.btinternet.com/~bejay_uk/B52crash.WMV

    Best Video has spiral in http://www.teambanana.co.uk/b52crash2.wmv

  Nine Minutes of flight video takeoff and landing, Save file to hard drive before playing 29.2 Mb. http://www.mcgirt.net/RC/VIDEOS/Giant_B52/B52_flight2.wmv.

Thanks for the link.

Egypt Air 990 Crash

"Gamil al-Batouti said: "Tawakilt ala Allah" or "I put my faith in God". Then the captain, Ahmed al-Habashi, who is thought to have left the cockpit, returned to say "pull up" or "help me"."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/egyptair/article/0,2763,330000,00.html

"From his salary, and by selling land inherited from his father, Batouti also managed to acquire the badges of prosperity worn by Egypt's urban upper middle class; he owned a late-model car and three homes, including a villa on the sea and another outside Cairo."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/egyptair/article/0,2763,196580,00.html

"In the immediate aftermath of the crash, Al-Batouti's sister-in-law, Amira Dahi, told reporters from the Al-Ahram newspaper that he had been acting out of character during his final stopover in the US, and that he hadn't been to see his relatives on this visit as he normally did."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/egyptair/article/0,2763,218460,00.html

He said he had worked on the Cairo-Los Angeles route for 14 years, flying Boeing 767s for 10 years...According to EgyptAir, he had more than 12,000 hours of flying time, 5,000 of them on the Boeing 767.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/egyptair/article/0,2763,196586,00.html

Suicide by Plane

"In 1982, a Japan Airlines (JAL) DC-8 crashed into Tokyo Bay while on approach to Haneda Airport in Japan, killing 24 and injuring 141. The captain allegedly pushed the nose down prematurely and pulled the inboard engines into reverse while on approach to the airport. ...the captain was placed into a psychiatric institution."

http://www.avweb.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=avweb&story.id=181888

Fatigue in Combat

Subjective Fatigue in A-6, F-14, and F/A-18 Aircrews during Operations Desert Shield and Storm
Authors: C. A. DeJohn; S. A. Shappell; D. F. Neri; NAVAL AEROSPACE MEDICAL RESEARCH LAB PENSACOLA FL

http://www.stormingmedia.us/34/3429/A342952.html

Forum Discussions

This thread has  military personnel discussing the crash.

http://www.airliners.net/discussions/military/read.main/9613

US Air Force Sites

The phenomenon on this site, VisionAndPsychosis.Net is not caused by Spatial Disorientation but here are sites on that subject.

Spatial Disorientation 

Accidents caused by an altered mental state may be incorrectly attributed to  Spatial Disorientation. There are three types.

http://www.spatiald.wpafb.af.mil/index.aspx

Explanation page.

http://www.cami.jccbi.gov/AAM-400A/Brochures/SpatialD.htm

Civilian Sites

Accident Database

http://www.atlasaviation.com/external.asp?area=166&ext_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Entsb%2Egov%2Fntsb%2Fquery%2Easp

Home page Atlas of Aviation

http://www.atlasaviation.com/default.asp

Graveyard Spiral

The cause of the John Kennedy crash. "Fluid in the inner ear reacts only to rate of change, not a sustained change."

http://bermuda-triangle.fateback.com/spatial.html

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