A visitor on my site asked me if I knew anything about a VC10 having been involved in a bombing incident in Laos during the Vietnam war.
Currently researching cases of "friendly fire" incidents and came across a near miss from 1970 "somewhere near Laos". Apparently a VC-10 of B.Cal (yes I know does not correspond with the date) was merrily flying along when the crew notices a stick of bombs falling to one side. It would appear that a USAF B-52 had dropped them, obvioulsy the mission planning had not accounted for a civilian aircraft in the vicinity. Is it a myth? I do not think so as a well respected colleague's mother-in law was a crew member on the flight, alas she passed away in 2002 so I can not ask her directly. Has anyone else heard of this to confirm it? Any help much appreciated.
See here for the original post:
http://www.vc10.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=816
I had not heard of this before, but can anyone shed any more light on this perhaps?