Bent Spear
 

Did anyone happen to catch this gem?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20926465/

Really gives you a nice warm & fuzzy about how we're preventing our nukes from falling into the wrong hands, doesn't it?

It looks like the ineptitude that is corporate America has finally made it into the military. Disgraceful and scary.

At least it wasn't a Broken Arrow.

This particular episode was directly attributable to laziness. Believe it or not, the live weapons were put on the left wing, and the dummy casings were put on the right wing. The idiots that signed off on the install looked at the right wing (closest to the donuts and coffee in the SucTruck), and never walked around the the left wing to check those, even tho they signed off on the entire deal. THEN the flight crew and crew chief (un fing believeably) did exactly same thing.

The live weapons are readily identifiable by a BIG RED SQUARE in a 2 inch by 2 inch window. They also WEIGH 250 pounds more than the dummy casings. You'd THINK that they would have had a heavy wing. Dollars to donuts (pardon the pun) they moved fuel, once in flight, to make it balance.

Everyone involved here is out looking for work, hopefully, or has been promoted out of harms' way. Bet the nuclear power industry just got 8 or 10 new hires.

Not to mention that this aircraft (and it's lethal load) was totally unguarded on the ramp for 8+ hours at BOTH ends of it's flight.

I will sleep better tonight. Right.

That's OK...we'll take a "bent spear" any day over the "broken arrow" we had here at Barksdale back in 1959 when a C-124 carrying two hydrogen bombs crashed just off the end of runway 33. There was some radioactive leakage into the soil. They "cleaned it up" by re-burying everything.:)

What Katrina couldn't do the USAF can....

Wonder if they squawked the bird as feeling like the left wing was heavy in flight? :)

Really gives you confidence in those who guard our nukes...