No matter how badly you screw up at work

It probably won't top this poor fella. Dude destroyed an F16. That's a Metalhead level fucup.

https://theaviationist.com/2018/10/...ntally-fires-cannon-on-the-ground-in-belgium/
"A Belgian Air Force F-16 has been destroyed and another aircraft damaged when the M61A1 Vulcan 20mm cannon on board a third F-16 was accidentally fired on the ground by maintenance personnel at Florennes Air Base in the Walloon area of Southern Belgium on Friday, Oct. 12, 2018."

 

How can 20mm be a “cannon”?

 

New coat of paint should fix it...

 

Damn! The amount of fail-safes and safeties bypassed to make that happen makes it quite bizarre to have happened at all. Maybe a gear check, that would have hydraulic power + WOW switches off, but then why was the safety-lock and pin out...wonder if there was a plain mechanical failure of one of the safeties.

 

Because it can fire non-solid rounds like HEI:
https://www.gd-ots.com/munitions/medium-caliber-ammunition/20mm-m50-series/

 

Mechanic's face.

 

Going to be a hefty payroll deduction there.

 

I suppose he said "I never touched the trigger, It just went off"....

 

Well, the obligatory, "I dropped it and it went off" won't work on this one. LOL!

 

That’s what happens when you let some nonner near your jet!

 

So ... here I was, just cleaning the gun when POW ...

 

That shit never ceases to amaze me. Every time I pick up a fire arm I check to see if it's loaded. I check to see if it's loaded before I hand some one a fire arm. I could hand them an unloaded weapon and they can hand it back to me 2 seconds later and I still check it again. It takes literally 2 seconds to check and yet there are dumb asses that still manage to shoot themselves, a wall or god forbid another person.

I know you were making a joke about the F-16 cannon and I went on a side rant. People are stupid. Rant over.

 

Ha....reality imitating art.


Anyone who has seen the movie Iron Eagle will know what I'm talking about.


"Doug creates a wall of flame across a runway using the "Hades Bomb," a completely fictional weapon that does not exist in the U.S. Air Force inventory. He also fires an AGM-65 Maverick missile while on the ground, which is not possible in real life - the F-16's weapon system is inhibited by a pressure sensor in the nose gear. Even if that missile did fire, they drop about 20 feet before even igniting, meaning they are locked out by altitude."

 

To be fair, a kill is a kill.

 

Hmmm, damage three total?

Two more and he's an Ace.

 

Shittiest movies ever, but badass flight sequences.

 

I'm surprised they would be doing maintenance with weapons loaded.