Things falling off aircraft

[Hoser]

When planes come apart above the ground, parts can be thrown for miles.

The SUMIT38 debris field was miles long.

[rondog]

I remember an A-10 that crashed a few years back here in CO, but the 500lb bombs it was carrying weren't with it. Were those bombs ever found?

[BushMasterBoy]

They never found the bombs. Again rumor has that the bombs were dropped and exploded. I worked at an military surplus store at the time and we equipped some guys that said they were looking for the bombs. Army Special Forces guys with mountain training saying they were going to dispose of the bombs. Never saw them again after they left. What is weird is last week I found two ammo links to a .50 machine gun near my back yard. Army helicopters used to circle the house a lot. They seemed to slow down and then finally stopped after I started bitching on here. I don't know what the fascination was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_D._Button

[Duman]

I remember an A-10 that crashed a few years back here in CO, but the 500lb bombs it was carrying weren't with it. Were those bombs ever found?

IIRC, that was a suicide by the pilot. It took a long time to find the crash site, it was into the side of a mountain.

[D_F]

This thread is worthless without waypoints... Just saying.

[Duman]

When planes come apart above the ground, parts can be thrown for miles.

The SUMIT38 debris field was miles long.

I googled SUMIT38, one of the contributing factors was a 'buggy' temp sensor they couldn't fix.

Very rarely have I encountered a bug that I couldn't get to root cause. It must have been a knotty problem.

[Gman]

What's a Dickfer?

[Hoser]

I googled SUMIT38, one of the contributing factors was a 'buggy' temp sensor they couldn't fix.

Very rarely have I encountered a bug that I couldn't get to root cause. It must have been a knotty problem.

Burned out thermocouples. Indicated cooler than it actually was.

When the engine burned off the wing, the plane came apart.

[rondog]

They never found the bombs. Again rumor has that the bombs were dropped and exploded. I worked at an military surplus store at the time and we equipped some guys that said they were looking for the bombs. Army Special Forces guys with mountain training saying they were going to dispose of the bombs. Never saw them again after they left. What is weird is last week I found two ammo links to a .50 machine gun near my back yard. Army helicopters used to circle the house a lot. They seemed to slow down and then finally stopped after I started bitching on here. I don't know what the fascination was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_D._Button

Wow, 20 years ago? No shit.....

[kidicarus13]

it was into the side of a mountain.

100ft from the summit of Gold Dust Peak. The debris field was a quarter mile square; mostly vertical, not horizontal.