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October 04, 2007

Military Accidents

Interesting RAF story in the news yesterday - they accidentally dropped a 14kg bomb from a plane during an exercise. Luckily, it was a practice bomb (with a fuse, not live) and didn't hit anybody but, still, it's quite a thing to drop my mistake.

There is, apparently, something of a history of interesting problems in the RAF. For example, to take a story from 1981:

Just a little additional info on the F-4E crash on 15 Apr 1981. The aircraft I don't know, but the unit was the 526TFS/86TFW Ramstein AB, FRG. The 526TFS was deployed to Eglin AFB for WSEP (before the move to Tyndall). The aircraft (Lead) was shot down with a Aim-9 from his Wingman. As Leader, this was "Ruddy" Dixon's first trip up the rails. For Charlie Sallee, his second set of Martin Baker test pilot wings.

As far as the UK forces go, the film Buffalo Soldiers is also great fun, and well worth a look (though I certainly can't vouch for its accuracy).

Posted by jon_mendel at October 4, 2007 07:55 PM

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