Ooops!
 

Nice one!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...st/7027059.stm

Similar incident in Goose a few years ago, but this time, it hung-up when released and came off on landing. Trashed various protrusions on the underside of the aircraft but it was easy to find. Just followed the bouncing bomb scuff-marks along the runway.

And yes, it really was a 617 crew!

N Joe

From the link 'Practice bombs are not live devices but are made to look and feel like real bombs.
The Ministry of Defence said they weighed the same as real ammunition and were carried on planes during training exercises to give pilots practice at flying with the necessary load.'

14 kg bomb? Another good bit of misinformation from the MoD

Sounds like a gross error to me - QWIs should score it as such.

Made a line on Newsnight tonight as well. Oh the coverage we get.

soddim is in fact an anagram of nazi..............apparantly :rolleyes:

DOH!!!!!!!!

Does this justify anything more?
It's just another "Hang-Up" -or rather a "Drop-off"


Mac

It happens.

Here's a few similar 'fun' stories:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/4587796.stm - Harrier 'drop' tank.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/3521919.stm - F15 bomb drop.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/l...re/2931099.stm - F15 sonic boom.

Good to see them practicing[:

"even if the concrete device had survived the fall,"

Is the MoD spokestosser suggesting that it might burn up on re-entry or something?

Are we talking about a BDU-33? When I worked at the weapons delivery range at Taif, I was walking through the workshop and one of RSAF's finest - an F-15 pilot put a BDU in a vice. He was just about to attack it with a hammer & chisel! "I want to see what's inside!"

RAF:- I'm sorry Mrs Jones, we've accidentally dropped 14kgs of concrete on you husband's head from 3000ft. Don't worry though. It didn't explode. :O

Mrs Jones:- :{

14kg?!

Erm, surely a 500lb bomb (227kg) weighs more than 14kg :confused:

Easier for the poor, stupid public to understand than saying "It has the same ballistic properties", I suppose. All this dumbing down is just *great* :sad:

Or possibly a journalist misunderstanding "has the same aerodynamic properties as" as "weighs the same as"...

Uups, wrong button :ugh:

Had an incident with a 1000lb retarded inert bomb at West Freugh in the late 60's. Because we wanted it to land in a specific place on a concrete pad, the release was done by having a row of upward facing spot lights that triggered the bomb release via photocells on the underside of the wing. During the run in from the IP the Bucc passed over a greenhouse with the sun shining on it. :ugh::ugh: ( The farmer was quite nice about it really)

Can we assume that the WSO had the weapon switches set to live? :oh:

New training methods are obviously working!. :)

I was presented with a deactived 3kg after I found one in the crash net at Colt.

Turns out it fell off on rotate - I believe the cause was excess carbon build up in the CBLS had caused the release mechanism to not go ' fully home '

So not one of these little jobbies (look beneath the a/c)
http://fc.airliners.net/photos/middle/9/8/4/1055489.jpg