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Navy shelves training bomb after accident
The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 21:03:09 EDT
Posted : Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 21:03:09 EDT
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The Navy has suspended the use of its BDU-48 training bomb while it investigates how one accidentally dropped from a fighter jet on Tuesday.
Atlantic Fleet Naval Air Force spokesman Mike Moss says training will continue as scheduled, just without use of the devices.
The 10-pound, inert training bomb fell from an F/A-18C Hornet and hit a warehouse as the aircraft was approaching Oceana Naval Air Station. It was returning from a training mission at the Navy’s bombing range in Dare County, N.C.
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An F/A-18C Hornet assigned to VFA 106 flies over aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt in 2003. A Hornet from VFA 106 dropped a practice bomb on Virginia Beach, Va., on Oct. 30.
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