From: Wayne Harris (papercu@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 24 2005 - 13:47:27 PDT
Thanks, that was what I was wanting to know. I was surfing the web and came
across a Air Force Officer bio, it seem he had received a medal for
answering/handling phone calls about the incident. It just seem a little
strange that after the lost of three lives and a multi-million dollar plane
that someone could get a award out of it. Wayne
>From: Wes Knettle <wsknettl@centurytel.net>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: [MV] B52 shoot down in 60's
>Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 23:01:49 -0500
>
>I was a B-52 Crew Chief and flew on them for many hours. It was very common
>for the 6 to 10 hour training sorties to include navigation work, inflight
>refueling, radar bombing with radar scoring and fighters. This gave the
>fighters a chance to practice high altitude intercepts and the B52 gunner a
>chance to acquire, track, lock on and sim fire at them. The fighters would
>at times have hot munitions on them for use at a range later in their
>missions. In the case you mentioned the F100 had a heat seeker that fired
>inadvertantly due to an electrical problem and hit an inboard engine which
>blew the wing apart on that side. If I remember the count correctly 3 in
>the Buff got out and 3 didn't. The F100 was from the New Mexico ANG I
>believe. An unfortunate accident but then "shit happens".
>
>Wes K
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