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Are they all crap?


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... -near-miss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Kwacky wrote:Are they all crap?


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... -near-miss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Well it seems the the stupid ones go on overseas deployments.

This link is a story about a US fighter that dropped live bombs around a manned range tower here in Aussie, because he stuffed up. He was suppose to drop them 2 km further down his vector. That was 2005.

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.smh ... dlv5c.html

I visited this range in 1996 and it had happened a few years earlier as well, with dummy bombs, and another US fighter, but still left craters around the tower.
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Seems it was the RAF air traffic controllers at Lakenheath who fcuked up on that one. That's the way it reads to me.....pilot just went where he was instructed & then was not given further instructions after the handover.
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i read it the same. Unless the frequency was busy because the pilots were chatting to each other. lol
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