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Italy, Aviano: USAF F-16 aircraft drops a training missile with 2 external extra fuel tanks

Aviano, Italy - One of which fell at only 200 metres from a house

On the evening of Monday, November 15, 2010, around 07:00 pm (local time), a F-16 plane belonging to the 31st "Fighter Wing" stationed at Aviano (Pordenone), home of a USAF base, had just taken-off for a training flight when, because of a failure, the pilot asked and received from the control tower the permission for dropping external loads, which occurred at the periphery of Maniago. Together with...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1122960
Rome, Italy, 11/17/2010 16:35
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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