Truck Full Of Military Munitions Crashes In Montana Snowstorm

[Zappa]

Ellsworth bomb disposal unit blows up Navy projectiles damaged in Montana crash

You'd think these guys would have instructions to stay off the roads during dangerous weather conditions.

 

[308rifleman]

Ellsworth bomb disposal unit blows up Navy projectiles damaged in Montana crash

You'd think these guys would have instructions to stay off the roads during dangerous weather conditions.

Risk would be minimal. Fuses are not installed until just before the munitions are deployed.

 

[Zappa]

Risk would be minimal. Fuses are not installed until just before the munitions are deployed.

If the risk is minimal, why blow up and waste the cargo rather than trying to recover it ????

 

[jct61765]

If the risk is minimal, why blow up and waste the cargo rather than trying to recover it ????

They recovered some, detonated the damaged stuff.

 

[Alan Hamman]

Back I believe it was 1985 in Oklahoma at the intersection of I40 and Hwy 69 a truck carrying 10 1000 pound bombs was hit by a car, in the fire caused by the collision 7 of them eventually detonated. The town was evacuated and it left a crater in the highway close to 30 feet deep, and close to 50 feet wide. I was traveling from Dallas TX to Tulsa OK, we heard the distant detonations as we approached I thought is was sonic booms. That was a bad day.

 

[MagGus1820]

If the risk is minimal, why blow up and waste the cargo rather than trying to recover it ????

Because its not their money.

 

[Woodstock]

Back in 1991 there was a head-on crash on I91 in downtown Springfield between a wrong-way drunk in a car and an 18-wheel flatbed hauling nuclear fuel. The car caught fire and could have been extinguished quickly, but they let the whole thing burn for 12 hours, evacuated downtown and turned it into a major incident. No radiation escaped and the fuel casks were offloaded to another truck. The overtime checks were huge that week.
Truck carrying radioactive material crashes, no radiation release