IAF drops live bombs on own base, leads to panic

[Counter-Errorist]

Spot on!
Does this fellow know that the USAF nearly detonated an atomic bomb over North Carolina? US Air Force came dramatically close to detonating an atom bomb over North Carolina that would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that devastated Hiroshima when two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over Goldsboro, North Carolina on 23 January 1961 by B-52 bombers.

So the conclusion? According to the logic of @AUz, the USAF is an unprofessional junk force! Oh yeah!

And that until 1974, their nuclear launch codes were set to 00000000 ?

For the Minuteman ICBM force, the US Air Force's Strategic Air Command worried that in times of need the codes would not be available, so they quietly decided to set them to 00000000. The missile launch checklists included an item confirming this combination until 1977.

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[Capt.Popeye]

As usual the usual suspects are there with their explosive statements and their slightly more refined but equal in mindset counterparts are there to reply as well. The poor report button has all but rusted out now.


On the topic..
Its a bomb.. it goes kaboom.. The best the IAF could have done was have sms's sent out about the occurrence taking place.
Question is, did these fall off a plane due to incorrect loading or did they go live my mistake(or whatever reason) and had to be blown up. The answer I believe will be buried in the base's log book.

@Oscar; wrt the underlined part, that seems to be the explanation. The report says something that the IAF personnel defused them and the splinters landed in the neighborhood. Seems to be a controlled detonation (not defusing) that was not completely controlled.

 

[janon]

@Oscar; my guess is that the bomb(s) in question is practice bombs. I know of another instance on a training flight (in the same region) about 1 and half decades ago, a rookie pilot jettisoned a practice bomb (in error) and missed a village.

Do practice bombs explode?

 

[Indischer]

Do practice bombs explode?

I was wondering the same.... practice bombs would have their fuses removed, wouldn't they?

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Do practice bombs explode?

They do. They're supposed to. How else would one know that one has hit the target.
But they are much smaller. 100 lbs or something. You can google that.
The description of the explosion seems to match them.

 

[SQ8]

@Oscar; wrt the underlined part, that seems to be the explanation. The report says something that the IAF personnel defused them and the splinters landed in the neighborhood. Seems to be a controlled detonation (not defusing) that was not completely controlled.

Not sure why practice bombs need detonation capn.. Arent they simply pure metal designed to simulate the trajectory as accurately as possible? Unless the IAF decided to dispose of older items in a rather uncalled for manner.

I think these were live and for some reason may have gone hot(as happens a lot to certain munitions) and attempts to defuse them may have failed. So perhaps it was best to blow them up and save on the risk of one going off while defusing. Normal routine when it comes to ordnance disposal.
Now if some sound sleepers got their nerves rattled by a louder than usual explosion and ToI decided to run it(because somehow being 136 years old gives it the right to blow up routine things) then so be it.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Not sure why practice bombs need detonation capn.. Arent they simply pure metal designed to simulate the trajectory as accurately as possible? Unless the IAF decided to dispose of older items in a rather uncalled for manner.

I think these were live and for some reason may have gone hot(as happens a lot to certain munitions) and attempts to defuse them may have failed. So perhaps it was best to blow them up and save on the risk of one going off while defusing. Normal routine when it comes to ordnance disposal.
Now if some sound sleepers got their nerves rattled by a louder than usual explosion and ToI decided to run it(because somehow being 136 years old gives it the right to blow up routine things) then so be it.

Practice bombs also have explosives in them, but just a wee bit compared to the real gizmos.

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The tea was simply lousy and disappeared from the market.

 

[Umair Nawaz]

IAF at its very best........

 

[MKI 30]

IAF at its very best........

Umair Nawaz at his best. You are the best man.

 

[Thirdfront]

US nearly drop the nuclear bomb on North Carolina, US didn't drop a nuclear on North Carolina that a big different compare to IAF drop a live bomb on their own base.

They did drop the bomb, not only in NC but also in Albuquerque.

 

[acetophenol]

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