Whoops

They're slippery little suckers, aren't they:

The United States Air Force says it is investigating how
one of its fighter jets dropped an unarmed bomb on the Yorkshire
countryside last week.
There were no injuries and only "limited property damage" in the
incident which happened around 5:15 p.m. last Thursday, a USAF
spokesman said. The 25 lb practice bomb was dropped by a F-15E Strike
Eagle on a routine training run from a base at RAF Lakenheath in
Suffolk, eastern England. The bomb landed in a "sparsely-populated
area" near the town of Market Weighton in Yorkshire, the spokesman
added. "Trained and experienced base personnel including Ministry of
Defence, and local constabulary authorities responded to the scene and
an investigation team is determining the cause the incident," the
spokesman said.

Posted by flow Frazao on January 12, 2004 at 03:38 PM | Permalink