70 Punished in Accidental B-52 Flight (armed, yet!)

David Hartung wrote:
SHIVER ME TIMBERS wrote:
I spent my 11 years in the USAF as a weapons loader and technician.

Well I'm just an armchair pilot like many in this group so what do I know
about nuclear bombs and what they look like.

BUT.... CURIOUS QUESTION.

Wouldn't it be a smart move to paint these little buggers in a special
vibrant day glo colour that someone looking at them from a hundred
yards would be able to recognize them for what they are.

I mean how could so many people handle such a thing and not realize
that they were nukes.

ARN'T THEY LABELED..?????????????

Yes, and missiles without warheads have a visible indicator that they
are inert, or at least they did in my day.


Still true today, including the difference in the colors gold and black
at the destruct points. Also there are technology-ripe methods,
barscanners, Palm Pilots specially modified and all kinds of other
stuff. Still and all, nothing, absolutely nothing beats the old
fashioned "Two Man Rule" inventory and walk around. That is what these
morons failed to do properly.