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Missing nukes found on a B-52?
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:53 amby Wing Nut
Will someone tell me how you can take off on a flight
WITH FIVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS ATTACHED TO YOUR WINGS and not know it? :o
Someone didn't do their pre-flight properly... ::)
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/20 ... -forc.html
Re: Missing nukes found on a B-52?
Posted:
Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:24 amby Ben R
LOL how can you not know!
lol, silly airmen
Re: Missing nukes found on a B-52?
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:21 pmby TSC.
LOL how can you not know!
lol, silly airmen
Aw, leave 'em alone Ben - it's a big plane to walk around.
Re: Missing nukes found on a B-52?
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:21 pmby ozzy72
One gets the feeling that they squadron mates will be issuing them with sunglasses, white sticks and labs in the very near future
Re: Missing nukes found on a B-52?
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:23 pmby Wing Nut
Re: Missing nukes found on a B-52?
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:26 pmby Chris_F
I can see how a pilot would overlook that. The paperwork says you're carying 5 live, conventional cruise missiles. You do the pre-flight and see there are indeed five live cruise missiles on the plane. How would you know they're nukes?
Re: Missing nukes found on a B-52?
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:33 pmby Wing Nut
Because those 5 twenty foot long missiles were supposed to have been removed beforehand... ;)
Re: Missing nukes found on a B-52?
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 3:18 pmby Chris_F
[quote]Because those 5 twenty foot long missiles were supposed to have been removed beforehand...
Re: Missing nukes found on a B-52?
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:04 pmby Wing Nut
[quote]The missiles, set to be decommissioned, should have been removed from the plane. Instead, they were mounted on the bomber
Re: Missing nukes found on a B-52?
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:39 pmby Mushroom_Farmer
Seriously, stuff like this happens from time to time...I could tell some stories...Trust me.
Some people forget the need to look at the paperwork closely as the missiles were apparently supposed to be be mounted on the pylon. They just weren't supposed to have warheads installed. Somebody didn't read serial numbers off. But hey all advanced ALCMs look the same right?, and those W80 warheads are small.
The USAF personnel involved will be held accountable.
Re: Missing nukes found on a B-52?
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:59 pmby matt2190
If you read the CNN version
here the missles were suppose to be on the B-52. The problem is the nuclear warheads were suppose to be removed from the missles but for some reason that never happened.
Re: Missing nukes found on a B-52?
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Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:59 pmby Mushroom_Farmer
Sorry for digging this topic up again. Here's some important snipets from Air Force Reg 91-11(Safety rules for U.S Strategic Bomber Aircraft) as of 14Feb2006.
This instruction implements AFPD 91-1, Nuclear Weapons and Systems Surety. It applies to operations
with B-52H and B-2A aircraft and nuclear weapons dedicated for use with the aircraft. Section A assigns
responsibilities. Section B contains each nuclear weapon systems
Re: Missing nukes found on a B-52?
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Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:21 amby C
Because those 5 twenty foot long missiles were supposed to have been removed beforehand... ;)
Not necessarily. If you're supposed to be carying missiles anyway how do you know what's in the warhead? We're all assuming the plane was supposed to be empty but there's no evidence of that in the story.
Because when it involves carrying any missile, live or a training round, you double check. I'd be very surprised if there wasn't any visual identification for each type either.
No excuse as far as I can see...
Re: Missing nukes found on a B-52?
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Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:03 amby Mushroom_Farmer
[quote][quote][quote]Because those 5 twenty foot long missiles were supposed to have been removed beforehand...
Re: Missing nukes found on a B-52?
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Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:54 amby Chris_F
[quote][quote][quote][quote]Because those 5 twenty foot long missiles were supposed to have been removed beforehand...