F-117A Downed

Four missing fasteners caused the USAF/Lockheed Martin F-117A crash at a Baltimore area air show on Sept. 14, and a required inspection of those fasteners was missed six months earlier, according to the accident report. The report found that maintenance records of the Air Force 49th Fighter Wing...

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