Buzzer wrote:

"Hamfisted" crew from Ubon in early 1967 blew a pod off a pylon over
North Vietnam.

And a pod fell off a pylon on a plane taking off at Ubon shortly after
that. No cause was found.

Interesting. I'm somewhat surprised that Ed Rasimus never heard of
these incidents during his 250 combat missions in SEA in Thuds and
Phantoms. In any event, I simply "doubted" that it could happen, not
that it unequivocally did not happen.

-Mike Marron