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F-16 In Trouble Bombs Hill Air Force Base

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Lateral-G

Chief Test Pilot
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No one was killed, but there were explosions after an F-16 dropped two external fuel tanks and munitions (including a 500-pound bomb) onto an unpopulated area of Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Thursday. The event took place just before 4 p.m. at Hill Air Force Base. The pilot later landed safely and the 500-pounder did not explode on impact, but other munitions that were supposedly unarmed did. As a result, a work shed near an ordnance facility was blown up as was a nearby transformer, which caused a brief base-wide power outage. The fuel tanks and bombs which fell on the base landed roughly 2,500 feet from Interstate 15, which was affected as officials accounted for the explosives. Some 500 gallons of jet fuel in the drop tanks leaked onto the grounds and, until Saturday, the 500-pound bomb was resting under 17 feet of earth.


Local residents were then told to expect sights and sounds associated with detonating the 500-pound bomb, which delivered on those promises in a controlled blast. The F-16 pilot became aware of the emergency during takeoff and base officials said he followed procedure in jettisoning the load. Soil contaminated by the jet fuel will be excavated to minimize environmental damage.
 
i realize this might be a stupid question, but why not just burn off the fuel, instead of carting away all that dirt?
 
cheezyflier said:
i realize this might be a stupid question, but why not just burn off the fuel, instead of carting away all that dirt?
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Because the people who fear the spill, will claim that even though you might "burn" it off, there will still remain some form of contamiation from the burn that will be left over to seep into the aquafier that some human or fuzzy little creature in a future time, might take a drink from.

Thus harming the natural flow of survival.

Excavating the dirt will require a dig at least twice in proportion to the spill in both area and depth, to be acceptable to the treehugging laws.

This contaminated dirt will then be transported to a proper remediation facilltiy where the dirty dirt will be remediated into clean dirt to be used the next time something like this happens.

Of course that just covers the ground. Heaven forbbid you also send the contaminates of the burning fuel skyward to add to the amount of AGW pollutants accumulating at expotential rates, despite man's efforts to reduce those air borne pollutants.
 
Ted, we drink from the same cup as far as tree huggers and Al Gore types are concerned. I don't know if you were around when you were allowed to burn the leaves in the fall. The aroma was simply wonderful. I miss it.
Or on Halloween or the Fourth of July when towns used to compete for the biggest Bonfires. Some of them exceeded 300 feet. That's really something to celebrate.
But the tree huggers destroyed all that and all the fun that went with it.
I think the pilot had a low power light and had to dump all his stores. Luckily, the bomb was not armed, and he had to dump the fuel tanks.
 
Snuffy said:
Of course that just covers the ground. Heaven forbbid you also send the contaminates of the burning fuel skyward to add to the amount of AGW pollutants accumulating at expotential rates, despite man's efforts to reduce those air borne pollutants.
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so then it's of no consequence all the fuel that gets burned to dig the dirt out, take it somewhere, clean it, move it again, then put it down somewhere else? hmmmmmm:isadizzy:
 
Glad everyone is ok, the pilot made it down safely, the bird survived (jet) and that no one was hurt.

Always great news when that happens.. (no one getting hurt that is).


500 Pounder! Dang.. I'll bet that was a wild sound to hear when it went off, lol..


Bill
 
Lateral-G said:
As a result, a work shed near an ordnance facility was blown up as was a nearby transformer
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Poor Megatron...

:d


As for the "tree hugging" part:
Aviation fuel and anything coming out of a refinery isn't the best thing to seep into the water in the ground. And as usual in a cycle based environmental system it's going to come back to you or your children one day.
 
Now you just know this pilot is going to catch a lot of good-natured ribbing about bombing his own "home-drome".

Nice that there were no injuries and the plane's ok too !
 
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