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Updated: Dummy bomb crashes into Tulsa apartment building
Jeremy Isbell shoots photos of his bathroom Friday at the Canyon Creek apartments where a non-explosive BDU-33 bomb blew the wall out of his bathroom on Thursday evening. Shane Bevel/Tulsa World
By STAFF REPORTS
Published:
3/14/2008 12:34 AM
Last Modified: 3/14/2008 12:12 PM
Federal authorities are investigating why a dummy bomb traveling about 600 mph crashed into a building at a Tulsa apartment complex Thursday.
The non-explosive BDU-33 bomb came from an F-16 fighter plane that was headed for Salina, Kan., from the Tulsa Air National Guard Base, according to a press release from the Oklahoma Air National Guard. The plane took off about 3 p.m. and the bomb was inadvertently released from the aircraft a few minutes later.
No one was injured when the bomb crashed into the Canyon Creek Apartments, 2102 E. 51st St. It hit a building that houses electrical equipment and knocked out an apartment wall and power to the complex.
The BDU-33, which weighs 22 pounds and is used during training, has a spotting charge that releases a cloud of smoke on impact, but the pilot never saw the smoke trail that would have indicated it did indeed drop.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have been assisting in the ongoing investigation.
Canyon Creek resident Jeremy Isbell said the electricity was off when he and his wife arrived at their home on Thursday evening. After they went inside, his wife, Kyla Isbell, discovered that their bathroom wall had been knocked out.
Isbell said he went outside to tell AEP-PSO employees who were trying to find the cause of the outage that the damage to his home might have been caused by an electrical explosion.
The workers then looked at the damage and found the bomb -- half of which was buried in the concrete structure of the building that housed the complex's electrical equipment. The other part, which had fins on it, was twisted and broken off but probably measured at least 2 feet in length, he said.
The bomb had plunged through some trees before it hit the building, and firefighters were using ladders to climb into the trees, apparently to try to determine its trajectory, Isbell said.
By STAFF REPORTS
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Tora Tora
, Tulsa (3/14/2008 12:54:05 AM)
Don't blame it on Mayor Kathy.
Don't blame it on Oral.
Don't blame it on George.
Don't blame it on the Hispanics.
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Hmm
, (3/14/2008 12:57:17 AM)
Too bad it didnt land in an empty road somwhere, than at least we could blame all the potholes on it and get the feds to pay for it to be repaved! JK, but it is a strange story indeed. Will be interested in hearing the details (if they are released).
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Bruth
, Tulsa (3/14/2008 12:58:15 AM)
It's part of the Gay Agenda
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Onomatopoeia
, Jenks (3/14/2008 1:26:21 AM)
Somewhere, some military pilot, and everyone in contact with him/her, has their butts in a sling.
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Mike
, Tulsa (3/14/2008 1:31:57 AM)
Nope it was a BDU-33..Bomb Dummy Unit that came off a F-16.. and yeah the pilot has some answering to do
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Onomatopoeia
, Jenks (3/14/2008 1:44:26 AM)
Item #33 on my Bucket List: never become a military pilot.
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Haskell Cherry
, Fall Out Shelter of the U.S.S. DUH-bya. (3/14/2008 2:31:26 AM)
This is what happens when you let a Spoiled Little Rich Kid play "Dress-Up Fighter Pilot"!!!
I lived in those apartments years ago.
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OneActivist
, Tulsa (3/14/2008 5:41:21 AM)
I say we should return the rocket...right through some recruitment office window.
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Dover
, (3/14/2008 6:22:18 AM)
OMG this is to funny!!!! To bad it wasnt my bathroom. I could use a little remodel job!!!!!!!!!!LMAO
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oldrusty
, tulsa (3/14/2008 6:40:47 AM)
Glad it was not one of the Nukes they carry around,Sure would have made another parking lot.. a great big one..
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Dumpling
, Sand Springs (3/14/2008 6:49:14 AM)
Glad it didn't hit the Donut shop, our police dept would have been in real trouble!!
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Lee
, Tulsa (3/14/2008 6:51:37 AM)
Umm....all obvious jokes aside, but exactly HOW do you not know if you dropped a rocket, and where it fell?
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Tulsan
, (3/14/2008 7:17:29 AM)
Maybe they should leave the bombing to the real military, and keep the guard doing what it's supposed to do -- helping out after tornadoes and other disasters.
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Chief
, (3/14/2008 7:22:53 AM)
Let's see, you are hammering the same group of Americans that have just returned from duty in Iraq.
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Graychin
, Eucha (3/14/2008 7:28:43 AM)
About a year ago, some nukes were put aboard an Air Force plane "accidentally," and were flown from Nebraska to Louisiana in unsecured circumstances.
So it could have been worse. Much worse.
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T
, (3/14/2008 7:39:48 AM)
I'm sure they don't support them over there, so why support them here?
I never understood the mentallity of some people. They blame GWB for the every death the has occured since 9/10/01 (that's right, even the ones on 9/11), as if every service member had been drafted. They don't seem to care that they ALL signed up. How many have joined the military SINCE 9/11? Anyone? If a person is forced to do a job, they usually received MORE support from everyone. Also, how many of our servicemen/women have signed on for more than one tour?
I wish they weren't there, and I wish even more that none had died, but they ARE there and they will receive my full support until they are NOT needed there anymore. Yes, that even includes the ones in training here in the Land of the FREE and the Home of the BRAVE.
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Tulsa Song
, Tulsa (3/14/2008 7:40:57 AM)
Probably happens, like many things, more than we'd like to think. And where on earth did the writer get the idea military pilots were anywhere close to the rich-kid area of American society.
Let's see... military and
......rich. (See -- they won't even GO in the same sentence).
Durff.
PS -- I am glad, however, that no one was hurt. Praise God. That really should have been my only comment.
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ELENA
, TULSA (3/14/2008 7:48:03 AM)
IT'S NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE! OOPS! NOW WHERE DID I LOSE THAT ROCKET!
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Klitchko
, (3/14/2008 7:56:06 AM)
To bad it didn't hit ORU. Finish off that mess the Oral and Co. created.
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Kevin
, Tulsa (3/14/2008 7:56:49 AM)
Why couldn't this have landed on my car? I would have loved to get a Hummer courtesy of the US gov! I don't think the pilot is in as much trouble as the ordinance officer who forgot to snap the j-clamp holding the ordinance on!
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Bob 1
, (3/14/2008 7:57:59 AM)
All you negative people are probably the same people who throw there cig. butts and sandwich wrappers out your car windows which makes up more pounds than this bomb.......
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Dwight
, Fort Smith (3/14/2008 8:06:48 AM)
Apparently the system (which is all electronics) told the pilot that he had launched the missle, but it had failed to leave the aircraft at that time, hanging loosely on the plane. It choose that particuliar time to ago ahead and fall from the plane, into the building. It only damaged a building, that is the good thing. There will be an investigation into the accident, and try to determine why it failed to launch from the aircraft. You need to support and defend your guard people in the Tulsa area, they are there defending your rights to say horrible things about them, Shame on you, It was an accident, nothing more or less. This was a Training Rocket, not an actual war ready rocket, and that is what they do every day, is Train for war, and hoping they never have to actually go, but they do, and they come back, and start training again, for the next time they have to deploy somewhere.
If you think that you can do the job better than them, then you can join up, and show them what you can do, until then, sit back and enjoy your freedom, and let them do their jobs!!
USAF RETIRED (ANG)
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Jane Doe
, Tulsa (3/14/2008 8:07:35 AM)
Its funny how quickly everyone forgets the sacrifices and services the men and women in all military branches give for them. Yes it is a scary mistake, but lets not forget all they have done and do for us.
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RANGER
, US ARMY AMERICA (3/14/2008 8:16:45 AM)
COMMENT #26
being a kidney donar is a sacrfice. Killing or capturing the enemies of the USA is privelage,
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Susan
, tulsa (3/14/2008 8:23:27 AM)
Yes--an accident--but my son and I went to a play at Heller Theatre last night and drove through that intersection twice, once about 7:30 and once about 10:00. I wonder when that thing fell. I didn't see that mentioned. It could have hit us!!
I feel really really safe with those guys in the sky now. It's SO lucky that no one was hurt or killed!
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