This is off the thread a bit as it concerns a USAF C5 Galaxy earlier this year in the Solomon Islands and you are not going to believe it.
On one of the islands near Guadalcanal somebody found a cache of mustard bombs and the Pentagon sent out a team to dispose of them. All fourteen of them, in a GALAXY????.
The arrival was no problem but when it parked in the international terminal the civil traffic couldn’t get past it so it was taxiied forward to the edge of the ramp. The bomb disposal people did their stuff and then the problems started.
It couldn’t turn on the ramp so it sat there, the largest man-made construction in the Solomon Islands. They could not reverse taxy because it needed special authority from Washington and they wouldn’t give it so it was stuck.
I left about five days later and the last thing I heard was that they were going to fly out a Globemaster with a towing tractor to push it to the end of the runway.
