Posted on 06/14/2008 5:02:10 AM PDT by SLB
Last April 9th, at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, two soldiers were driving a rented SUV about five kilometers from the part of the range used for live firing. It was at night, and an F-16 that thought it was firing at something in the live fire area, lit up the SUV instead. Only 70 20mm rounds were fired. Fortunately, the two people in the SUV were only injured (both from flying glass, the passenger got a dislocated shoulder as he rapidly exited the vehicle when it quickly turned off the road and stopped.) The investigation of how this happen has not been completed.
Comments please.
Toldja not to accept the LDW.
There was a thread posted at the time, perhaps someone has it bookmarked or can search for it.
I did a couple of searches for it and could not find it. If someone has it please link to it for me.
I hope our AF guys keep practicing, albeit not on our own civilians!
This is hopefully what Bin Laden can look forward to one of these days.....if he didn't already bite the dust in Tora Bora way back when....which I think he did.
Leni
Thanks - i did not see any pictures of the SUV in the original post.
wow - just missed the gas tank I guess
Hope they bought the optional damage insurance for the vehicle at the rental agency.
It was a rental car too, sure hope he ponied up for the extra insurance.
I would love to see the look on the managers face when they took it back to the Hertz lot, that would be a keeper.
Yes, but this post has a link to a picture of the SUV.
Think that will be covered?
Hard to explain.......renter "well it was the other pilot's fault", insurance company "other pilot??????"
I think I woulda used a UAV to take that out - F16 is overkill.
SUV’s are evil, they are destroying the planet.
THIS IS YOUR FIRST WARNING.
The eradication campaign starts as soon as the Climate Security Act passes next year and Presedent Obama signs it into law.
THEN we will start targeting ALL SUV’s (unless they belong to politicians or movie stars)
Lucky SOBs. They should load up on lottery tickets.
Probably a CLM for the pilot.
Points up the reason the Army likes having A10s around for the CAS mission.
The Air Force has a tendency to consider everything on the ground a target, at least that’s my observation having been one of their targets once upon a time.
In this case, I can understand a pilot getting confused about where he is in relation to the impact area, but I would think that the real targets were likely static and might not have even had a heat source. So, if I saw a moving hot target, I think I would double check before pressing the trigger.
At the very least, athere should be comprehensive legislation on all SUV’s - F16’s also.
There is a news article on Fox right now about a 16-year-old girl from Michigan who survived being struck by lightning this week. She walked away with a slightly burned hand and a numb arm. Her mom went out and bought her a lottery ticket and the girl won $20.
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