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Old 30th Jan 2003, 23:23
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Question A very, very bad day

Many years ago I saw a short film. Please bear with me because the details are rather vague and any or all of the following may be wrong.

It was set during the Korean or Viet Nam war on an American airfield or depot. There were lines and lines of aircraft, single piston engined fighters as I remember. There was also a very large amount of stored fuel and ordnance. Somehow one of the aircraft released or fired a weapon, which hit other aircraft. These in turn "opened fire" on each other, and sooner or later, the fuel and ordnance was also part of the confalgration.

I believe this film was part of a "How not to lay out an airfield" lesson.

Can anyone shed any light on the incident?
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