The plane was stationed at Andersen Air Force Base on the Pacific island of Guam.

"The two pilots ejected prior to the crash," Lieutenant Colonel Doug Smith of the USAF.

"One of them was medically evaluated and released and the other is in a stable condition at a naval hospital."

The crash site attracted a large crowd of islanders.

"I heard a loud bang, saw some smoke and a co-worker called me and told me what happened," said Albert Saboy.

"My co-worker was driving the water truck with the air-con on and windows up, he could still feel the burst."

It is believed that the B-2s were moved from their usual base on US soil to the Pacific, in case of any enemies of America exploiting their current deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan to launch a surprise attack.

"Andersen Air Force Base has long had a squadron of heavy bombers, deployed there to be close to Taiwan and the Korean Peninsula," said Robert Kaplan, Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the US Naval Academy,

The crash came as little surprise to military analysts.

“I guess you could say the B-2 was due,” said Owen Cote, a military specialist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“There’s not a plane in our inventory that hasn’t crashed."

"The odds were bound to catch up, even with a small force like the B-2.”