Originally Posted by parabellum
The story I read, written, I think, by one of the crew involved,, said the bomb did not drop, hung up in other words, and the aircraft became unflyable, with a fire, for reasons that were not fully understood but the crew bailed out and were captured.
Was that the Peters/Nicholl downing? If it was, then I believe the main computer did not generate a release cue for the bombs in the loft attack and unfortunately they recovered quite high and into a Roland MEZ which took the fleeting opportunity and claimed them. It's all in their book (well, nearly all
).
As an aside; I spoke with a F-111 driver many years who said the Turkey-based F-111s were flying low-level missions for nearly 2 weeks.