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  1. 16th October 2018, 09:33 AM #1
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    A major "Oops" moment

    A technician accidentally triggered an F-16's cannon and blew up another F-16 in Belgium

    Yep, you read that right.

    The Belgian Air Force is investigating how a technician servicing an F-16 jet fighter triggered its 20mm Vulcan cannon and destroyed another F-16 at the Florennes airfield.





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    why was it left loaded?
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    Was being prepped to go out on a training sortie. Would have needed live rounds if it was a gunnery exercise.
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    Officer, I was only cleaning it and didn't know it was loaded.

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    I was climbing through a fence and snagged the trigger on a barb and shot my mother-in-law in the homestead 400 yards away.
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  6. 17th October 2018, 09:14 AM #6
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    Very effective cannon. Think of it as capability testing. A major "Oops" moment
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    In all my military training, lesson Number One was "Check Safe!"

    Regarding the loaded state, most modern fighters apparently are trimmed to allow for a full ammo load in the cannons. Trim is then adjusted as ammo and fuel are used. Forget exactly where I read that, but it was written by someone who should know - possibly a US Navy pilot, I've read a few books by some of them.
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    Hi,
    Some where in my training on aerial cameras was a warning on test running the camera when the aircraft (Canberra) was loaded with bombs.
    Bomb release triggered the camera and vice versa.
    Seemed crazy at the time, but I didn't get hands on experience.
    I regularly tested gun sight cameras in loaded Sabres and Mirage fighters without that worry.
    A story from RAAF Williamstown told of a Mirage being guided to a stop on the flightline and two missiles launching past the ground crew standing in front of it on shutdown.
    Would have been in the early 60s.
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