heavystick....what the hell did you do to Yuma?

thegirlfriday11

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weren't you going there?

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto.../ts_alt_afp/usmilitaryplanecrash_050616062645

Bomb-laden US military jet crashes in residential area, sparks evacuation

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A US military jet carrying four 225 kilogram (500-pound) bombs crashed into a residential suburb in the western US state of Arizona, forcing the evacuation of 1,300 homes, authorities said.

The US Marine Corps Harrier jump jet ploughed into a garden of a house in the city of Yuma, injuring one civilian on the ground, but the pilot walked away for the crash site, military spokesmen told AFP.

"A Harrier crashed in residential central Yuma," Marine Corps Private First Class Robert Botkin told AFP. "The pilot ejected safely and walked away."

But the spokesman for the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma said: "They are evacuating a one-mile (1.6 kilometer) radius around the crash site as the jet was carrying live ordnance."

Emergency officials from Yuma county said that 1,300 homes and a small shopping center had been evacuated as the wreckage was cleared and the bombs made safe.

But Kevin Tunell of teh country's emergency operations center said the powerful weapons had bnot been activated ahead of teh training flight.

"The bombs have failsafes to make them active and in this case they were not armed," he told AFP.

The aircraft, which is capable of vertical take-offs and landings but which has had a spotty safety record, was also carrying 300 round of 20 millimeter ammunition in addition to its cargo of large bombs.

The Marine base's emergency operations center confirmed the plane was carrying ordnance and that an evacuation of residents was underway and that those displaced were being put up in a nearby high school gymnasium.

Marine Corps spokesman Major Nat Fahy said in Washington that the British designed AV-8B Harrier was on a training mission when it crashed at around 2:30 pm local time (2230) GMT.

He said the pilot was taken to hospital but his condition was not immediately known and that a civilian had also been injured in the crash.

"I am told it was near a residential area and there is one injury confirmed, and that civilian is on the way to the hospital as well," he said.

The crash took place about one mile (1.6 kilometers) northwest of the Marine air station, officials said.

An investigation had already begun into the cause of the crash, officials said.

"This is the first time that anything like this has happened involving an aircraft from this station in an urban area," Botkin said. "We are very lucky that nobody seems to be seriously hurt."
 
he's in the marines i think...and he was just asking about yuma the other day...i think

i don't know if he went there for military or civilian reasons...in fact i'm not even sure if i have any of it right regarding heavystick

but someone from here was going to yuma and there are military people on lit...

coincidence?
i think not
;)
 
I think you are correct. He was supposed to go, so I wonder if he's already there. I'd imagine it's for maneuvers because no one in their right mind would go to Yuma just for the hell of it, in the summertime.
 
As you can see, there is nothing to do in Yuma, so he probably wanted to spice things up a bit.
 
If we see his pic on CNN, then he has proof that he really is a Marine! Or, maybe he's the guy that got injured! :eek:
 
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