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TC wrote:
Sixer, was the Thud that had the hot round cook off in the mag at the range near Shaw in your unit? Pops told me about it several years later. IIRC, it was a D model. Anyway, he made a strafing pass on the range, when a hot round exploded inside of the ammo mag. The round blew the nose off of the jet, and then some of the FOD took out the engine.
The pilot punched out, and he made it.
TC-
That jet was not in my unit. In fact, I only have the vaguest of memories about it. I wonder if it happened before I got into the Thuds in 1973. Glad the pilot got out.
We did lose a Thud in our unit in 1981 when the pilot made a high-speed pass by the reviewing stand at Ft. Bragg after a firepower demo and a weld in the engine casing failed when he lit the burner. It caught the main fuel line on fire and the whole aft end of the airplane went up in flames. Poor pilot never had a chance to eject. |
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