US Air Force to fire officers involved in 'mistaken' B-52 flight

[MMDad]

I knew I'd get it out of you.

There's a slight chance I was being sarcastic there, skippy.

 

[PsyOps]

There's a slight chance I was being sarcastic there, skippy.

Slight?..................... skippy?

 

[Kerad]

It's hard to believe that so many people made the exact same mistake on the exact same mission. It may be something as simple as someone entering the wrong munitions code on the flying schedule.

Of course you would think someone from Ammo would call to confirm that they really wanted the live ones...it's not as if those things get loaded on a regular basis.

It'll be interesting to find out what went wrong.

 

[Larry Gude]

Ok...

It's hard to believe that so many people made the exact same mistake on the exact same mission. It may be something as simple as someone entering the wrong munitions code on the flying schedule.

Of course you would think someone from Ammo would call to confirm that they really wanted the live ones...it's not as if those things get loaded on a regular basis.

It'll be interesting to find out what went wrong.

...but you think of the endless times all the moving pieces, both human and machine, worked just fine, right?

Matter of time for pretty much any accident involving much more than a rock laying on the bottom of the sea.

 

[Kerad]

...but you think of the endless times all the moving pieces, both human and machine, worked just fine, right?

Matter of time for pretty much any accident involving much more than a rock laying on the bottom of the sea.

I understand that eventually anything that can go wrong, will. Still...there's so much to the process of just getting the nuke out of storage and out the Weapons Storage Area gate....let alone getting to the flightline and loaded on the plane.

Like I said, it''ll be interesting to see what really happened. But my guess is that those who had hands-on fully knew what they were moving and loading. I'd be shocked if someone just grabbed the wrong thing out of storage by mistake. That mistake would (should) have been discovered many times before the item even got loaded...let alone up in the air.

Huh.

 

[Pete]

Bush did it. He was pizzed off at the New Orleans people for busting him out on Katrina so he was going to nuke Louisiana.

 

[Novus Collectus]

Originally Posted by runnerboy1500
wow....can you imagine a mechanical failure during that flight???

Quote:

The Air Force said there was never any danger to the public because the weapons were designed with multiple safety features that ensure the warheads do not detonate accidentally.

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Bull! There was no reasonable danger to a nuclear explosion, but to say there was no danger is preposterous.
If there was a crash or a midair explosion then there is the remote possibility of a spread of radioactive material, but if there was a midair collision and it was near a population area, then thousands of people would be dead or dying from radiation poisoning because the odds of a nuke not proteced by a containment vessel breaking open in a collision is high.
Remember the Palomares incident?