RAF Lakenheath F15 fighter jet drops BDU-33 bomb on airfield

SN30952 · Post by **SN30952** » 12 Jan 2004, 19:59

A BDU-33 bomb, which weighs 25-pound and produces smoke on impact, caused an 18-inch crater in an asphalt track which is part of an old airfield now owned by Allied Grains. The training bomb landed in an area near Holme on Spalding Moor - six miles south west of Market Weighton in East Yorkshire.

The accident happened at about 1715 GMT on 8 January.

The device was dropped from an RAF Lakenheath F-15 fighter jet. he F-15E Strike Eagle was conducting a routine training mission at the time of the incident.

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 12 Jan 2004, 21:37

They were very lucky that the bomb didn't fell on house 8O

Imagine you are in your house and there is a bomb falling in your garden

I wouldn't want to be there

Chris

Comet · Post by **Comet** » 13 Jan 2004, 10:08

Thankfully it didn't land on the town. The USAF must take full "responsibility" for their sometimes crass actions. They are the most trigger happy of "allies"!