posted by admin on Oct 31
Last Tuesday, a small and inert training bomb fell from a warplane when it was flying toward an air station. The Navy confirmed that no one was hurt. However, the 10-pound empty bomb damaged a warehouse in one of the resorts in Virginia Beach, leading only to minimal damages.
It was an F/A-18C Hornet plane that caused the whole incident as it returned to Oceana Naval Air Station after a training session at the Navy’s bombing range in Dare County, North Carolina. The bomb just suddenly dropped as the jet was making its final touchdown.
Eventually, the Navy board will look into the bomb accident, and then determine if the pilot has to be punished. He has failed to calculate the jet’s altitude, which resulted in the untimely release of the said BDU-48 bomb.
Such type of bomb typically carries an explosive charge that expels smoke on impact.