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中文的信息很少，
鼎盛军事天地的只言片语：
1994年3月23日。POPE空军基地，北卡罗来纳州。F-16战斗机误击停机坪上的C-141。C-141起火爆炸，等待登机的伞兵24人死亡，
据说当时北卡的伞兵正在进行休整,根本就没有任何转场任务,甚至空军基地自己也是临时接到通知说有飞机要在该地装载货物....
当时地勤人员的确看到有20多名武装人员准备登机,但那些人穿的却是类似于SWAT的黑色防弹夹克和没见过的黑色军装.
而他们也不是独自上飞机,跟着上去的还有一箱白色的大集装箱,上面碰的是NASA的标志
可刚登机不久飞机上就发生响动随即就响起了枪声.
枪声不久就稀落了,机场警卫部队也赶到,要冲上飞机察看情况.
可飞机这时竟然开始滑跑,企图起飞!
这时护送飞机来的F16没有向地面请示就立即投下了3枚精确指导炸弹,全部在集装箱安放的前舱爆炸,飞机前舱一下子就消失在了烟火中.......
事后奇怪的是这起发生在空军基地的灾难空军居然没有权限调查,清理现场也是国防部直接派专员负责,而那架F16的机司没有受到任何审判.......
英文的2篇文章：
Memorial service commemorates disaster
By Kevin Maurer, Staff writer
Published on: 2004-03-24
Ten years ago, Lt. Col. Bill Wanovich was supposed to complete his first jump as a primary jumpmaster. Instead, he saw his comrades consumed by a fireball before they got off the ground.
Tuesday was the 10-year anniversary of the crash at Pope Air Force Base that killed 24 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division.
The soldiers were killed when an F-16D Fighting Falcon jet collided with a C-130E Hercules airplane over Pope. The collision caused the fighter jet to crash into a parked C-141 Starlifter aircraft near Green Ramp, the area where paratroopers wait before boarding planes. The explosion caused a fireball that swept over the paratroopers who were waiting to jump. The accident was the worst peacetime loss of life for the 82nd since World War II.
The 82nd Airborne Division held a memorial ceremony Tuesday morning honoring the paratroopers who died. The ceremony was at the 82nd壮 Division Memorial Chapel. About 200 paratroopers and family members attended.
An M-4 rifle, boots and helmet were set up in front of the regimental colors for the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment and the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The 82nd壮 colors stood in the middle. A single set of dog tags hung from the trigger guard.
Command Sgt. Maj. Abdo F. Zacheus read the names of the paratroopers who died in the crash. The 82nd Airborne Chorus sang two songs, 荘Last Full Measure of Devotion" and 荘Amazing Grace." Seven paratroopers from Company A, 2nd Battalion, 505th fired three volleys honoring the dead. The ceremony ended when Sgt. Travis Anderson, a bugler with the 82nd band, played taps.
Col. Karl R. Horst, chief of staff of the 18th Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, gave the commander壮 remarks. He said that after the accident, Green Ramp became sacred ground.
荘There is not a single time I make a trip to Green Ramp that I don奏 think of the accident," he said.
Horst was commander of 2nd Battalion of the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment at the time of the accident. He said it was a typical spring day in North Carolina.
Horst was on the range training with his troops when the crash occurred. He remembers seeing the dark smoke plume. A few minutes later, Horst got word of the accident and sent his medics to the scene.
He said the paratroopers responded like it was a combat situation, and their superb training saved a lot of lives.
A sudden fireball
荘This accident could have been a lot worse," he said.
Wanovich was assigned to the 2nd Battalion of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment. He said once the fighter crashed, there was little reaction time. The fireball 荘was on us so quickly," Wanovich said.
After the crash, the soldiers did not run from the fire. Instead, they ran into it to save their comrades, Wanovich said. He remembers seeing paratroopers breaking apart a sign to use as a makeshift backboard to transport the wounded.
Like a lot of the survivors, Wanovich said he makes a point of remembering his fallen comrades every year. When he can, he tries to go out to Green Ramp around 2 p.m., when the accident happened.
While he will never forget what happened, the accident did not make it harder for him to jump.
荘It was a very unique thing. The plane could have come down anywhere. You don奏 expect that it will happen again," Wanovich said.
Green Ramp disaster
USAF firefighters drag hoses in front of the C-141 Starlifter destroyed during the disaster.The Green Ramp disaster was a 1994 mid-air collision and subsequent ground collision at Pope Air Force Base (Pope AFB), North Carolina that killed twenty-four members of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division preparing for an airborne operation. It was the worst peacetime loss of life suffered by the Division since the end of World War II.
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The crash
The "Green Ramp" is the large north-south parking ramp at the west end of Pope AFB's east-west runway, used by the U.S. Army and Air Force to stage joint operations. Several buildings sit along its western edge, including Building 900, the building housing the Air Force operations group. A pax shed (a large open-bay building) sat next to Building 900, which the Army used to prepare troops for parachute drops. A large grassy area, where troops could relax before drops, lay between the two buildings. Behind the area, several concrete mock-ups of the backs of Air Force cargo aircraft had been constructed, where troops could rehearse their drop procedures.
On the day of the accident, approximately 500 paratroopers from Fort Bragg were in the pax shed, the concrete mock-ups or resting in the grassy area. While the jumpers prepared to board several C-130s and C-141 aircraft parked on Green Ramp, the sky was filled with Air Force F-16, A-10 and C-130 aircraft doing Air Force training.
Mid-air collision
Shortly after 14:00 hours, an F-16D (88-0171), simulating an engine-out approach, collided with a USAF Lockheed C-130E Hercules (68-10942). Both aircraft were on short final to the runway at an altitude of approximately 300 feet. The nose of the F-16 severed the C-130's right elevator. Upon impact, the F-16 pilot applied full afterburner to try to recover the aircraft. As the aircraft began to disintegrate, however, showering the runway and a road which ran around the runway with debris, both F-16 crewmembers ejected, but their aircraft, still on full afterburner, continued on an arc towards Green Ramp. At the same time, the C-130 crew took their aircraft away from the airfield, and checked to ensure it was capable of landing. While the crew knew they were most likely struck by the F-16, they had no idea how it happened or the extent of the damage. After performing their checks, the crew returned to Pope and landed on the debris-littered runway.
Ground collision
By the time the C-130 landed, the F-16 had impacted Green Ramp heading west. The aircraft struck the ground in an empty parking place between two Air Force C-130s with crews on board preparing the aircraft for departure. When the F-16 hit the ground, its momentum carried the wreckage westward through the right wing of a C-141 (66-0173) parked on the ramp. The C-141 crew was also preparing the aircraft for joint Army-Air Force operations, however, no Army troops had yet boarded the plane. The wreckage of the F-16 punctured the fuel tanks in the C-141's right wing, causing a massive fireball. The combined fireball and F-16 wreckage then continued on a path taking it between Building 900 and the Pax Shed, directly into the area where the mass of Army paratroopers were sitting and standing. 23 men died and over 80 were injured; one severely burned paratrooper died later on 3 January 1995.
Paratroopers from the US Army Jumpmaster school who were right at the scene of the accident rushed to pull troopers from the flames and exploding 20 mm F-16 ammunition. Military and civilian vehicles were commandeered to ferry the injured to Womack hospital.
Aftermath
Several of the more severely burned victims were taken to the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research at Brooke Army Medical Center, Texas. Two months after the accident, only one paratrooper remained critical, while the others were either in satisfactory condition or convalescing at home.
A subsequent U.S. Air Force investigation placed most of the blame for the accident on the military and civilian air traffic controllers working Pope air traffic that day. A later investigation, however, stated that pilot error by the F-16 pilots also contributed to the mishap. The ramifications of the Air Force decision, since abandoned, of operating dissimilar aircraft (in this case C-130s and F-16s) at the same air base weren't examined by the two accident investigation boards. |
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