Pilot accidentally bombs home

[Mister Frag]

Original story can be found here.

Pilot Accidentally Bombs Home
Air Force Pilot Temporarily Grounded After Practice Bomb Fell On Texas House

Jul 18, 2002 12:14 pm US/Pacific
(AP)-(HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. )-The Air Force has grounded a fighter pilot who accidentally dropped three dummy bombs, including one that fell on a house.

The pilot did not know his F-117A stealth fighter was carrying the 25-pound practice bombs as he targeted trash bins and other structures during a training exercise Tuesday, the pilot's wing commander said.

"This is not the way we do business, and we're very disappointed it happened," Brig. Gen. Marc Rogers said.

The pilot, whose name was not released, dropped the bombs on a home in Monahans, Texas, and near roads in Pecos, Texas, and Maljimar, N.M. No one was injured.

He was suspended pending an investigation.

Rogers said training flights are routinely flown around the Southwest using cameras to simulate bombs aimed at targets, sometimes in populated areas.

Rogers said a routine preflight check, performed by pilots and maintenance personnel, includes an inspection of the bomb bay. But other factors, including a mechanical failure in the plane, may have caused the accident, he said.

One of the practice bombs went through a home's roof and into a bathroom, plowing six feet into the ground. Rogers said the Air Force will repair the home.

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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Mister Frag @ July 18 2002,22:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Rogers said the Air Force will repair the home.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
I hope they don&#39;t decide to paradrop the tools, materials and repairmen

[Mister Frag]

I wouldn&#39;t be surprised if the new bathroom will come complete with one of those &#036;10,000.00 toilet seats the Air Force likes to purchase.

[Scorpio]

LMAO&#33;

[Warin]

Thus proving that the Air Force has a problem.

I can see the new recruiting ads:

Freindly Fire: Not Just For Canadians Anymore.

LOL

Poor guy... it would suck to have no idea that he was actually dropping things I can imagine he&#39;s pretty embarassed. Pilot Error is a wonderful thing. the sad fact is that he pilot usually takes the hit even when it&#39;s not 100% his fault.

[Hovmand]

Good thing it was only practice bombs

[residuum]

"The pilot did not know his F-117A stealth fighter was carrying the 25-pound practice bombs as he targeted trash bins and other structures during a training exercise"

Trash bins: America&#39;s number one threat.

[Tex [USMC]]

This is nothing compared to the time a nuke got dropped on a South Carolina house

[Tex [USMC]]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Mister Frag @ July 18 2002,22:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The pilot, whose name was not released, dropped the bombs on a home in Monahans, Texas, and near roads in Pecos, Texas, and Maljimar, N.M. No one was injured.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Holy shit, this is my neck of the woods. Monahans is just a hundred miles or so down I-20

*puts on football helmet, eyes the sky nervously*

[Mister Frag]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tex [USMC] @ July 18 2002,14:23)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Mister Frag @ July 18 2002,22:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The pilot, whose name was not released, dropped the bombs on a home in Monahans, Texas, and near roads in Pecos, Texas, and Maljimar, N.M. No one was injured.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Holy shit, this is my neck of the woods. Monahans is just a hundred miles or so down I-20

*puts on football helmet, eyes the sky nervously*[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
You have nothing to worry about, you&#39;re not Canadian, are you?

(Hangs head in shame and apologizes for insensitive joke)