French fighters accidentally bombed the factory

11 April 2018, 19:57 | Incidents 
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Air Force fighter France Mirage 2000 mistakenly "dropped" the bomb at the plant. This is reported by France Bleu. An unpleasant incident occurred on Tuesday, April 10, in the Loire department. Two military aircraft, heading for Nancy, flew over the settlement of Nogent-sur-Vernisson. And then one of them lost an air bomb that fell right into the factory of the company Faurecia. As a result of the emergency, two people were injured. "First there were two fighters, and we heard the sound of a strike. It was quite loud and even drowned out the noise of flying planes, "- said one of the eyewitnesses. According to the representative of the French Air Force, Colonel Olivier Selo, the ammunition that fell on the enterprise was educational and did not contain explosives, it was planned to be dropped at a training ground near Rheims. The incident in Nogent-sur-Wernisson is a rare event. Such emergency situations occur "exclusively, very, very rarely," stressed the colonel.

An investigation is under way, and the Air Force has apologized to civilians. It is also noted that at a plant employing about 600 people, after an emergency, more than 150 employees were evacuated. The lives of the wounded are not threatened, they are provided with psychological support. We must admit that this is not the first time in the world practice, when the military "drop" their bombs on the heads of civilians. So, in 2002 MiG-21 MiG-21 aircraft of the Romanian Air Force, flying over the city of Bacau, dropped a military bomb. Only by a lucky chance the 300-kg shell not only did not explode, but it did not hurt anyone either. The bomb jumped on a wheat field a few meters from one of the suburban areas.

The Ministry of Defense of Romania then reported that the 27-year-old pilot "just pressed the wrong button".

The pilot himself claimed that all the fault of worn out equipment. In July 2015, a bomb was dropped from the Su-25 attack aircraft of the Air Force of Iraq over the eastern region of Baghdad. As a result of the emergency, seven people were killed. However, the most incredible case occurred on March 11, 1958 with the fall of the atomic bomb in Mars Bluff from the American jet bomber Boeing B-47E-LM "Stratojet", which "planned" to a residential area in the village of Mars Bluff in South Carolina. The launch device was accidentally activated by navigator Bruce Kulka during the check of the safety bomb check on the orders of the commander. The projectile crashed in the forest sector next to the house of the Gregg family, destroying the garden and children's arbor, several buildings were damaged. By a lucky chance no one died, but 6 people were injured. The nuclear explosion did not happen, because the corresponding "stuffing" on the plane was stored separately.

Источник: YTPO.ru