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Wasn't there an event recently when a U.S. bomber took off with six nuclear tipped missiles which at the time were thought to be inert? And then landed with on
by java-man 7y ago
Wasn't there an event recently when a U.S. bomber took off with six nuclear tipped missiles which at the time were thought to be inert?
And then landed with only five?
- rarecoil 7y agoNot recent, but in 2007 a B-52 took off with six AGM-129 cruise missiles. [1] All were recovered. The root cause: "A later investigation found that the reason for the error was that the electronic production system for tracking the missiles 'had been subverted in favor of an informal process that did not identify the pylon as prepared for the flight.'" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_nuclear_weapons_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_n...
- lkbm 7y agoThis sounds like the 2007 incident[0], but the Wikipedia article doesn't say anything about one going missing. That sounds like the sort of thing that would get added as part of the regular mutation in story transmission, and would likely be pretty well-documented if it were true. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_nuclear_weapons_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_n...
- Freak_NL 7y agoDid they land with a USAF major missing as well?
- jessaustin 7y agoHe wasn't supposed to wear a cowboy hat...
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- jacinabox 7y agoThere's this thing called a checklist? might want to get a few, they're kind of a big deal.