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US Air Force to dismiss 5 officers for the nuclear flights case

Washington , USA - Lacking respect for safety norms

They had transported by mistake six Cruise missiles armed with W80-1 warheads with a B-52 Stratofortress bomber, upon the central part of the United States, from the base of Minot in North Dakota to the base of Barksdale in Louisiana (see in regard to this AVIONEWS). Now the US Air Force, having ascertained that in this case the fundamental procedures for the handling of the transport of this very...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1080964
Rome, Italy, 10/19/2007 14:37
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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