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Robbie Stuart
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Explosive Ordinance Disposal personnel from the 447th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron at Sather Air Base, Iraq, detonate explosives to detach the wings from the body of a C-130 Hercules here July 7. The EOD team is using a series of controlled detonations designed to divide the airplane into smaller pieces so it can be easily moved. The C-130 made an emergency landing in a field north of Baghdad International Airport shortly after take-off June 27. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Jeffrey Allen)
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Gary sho-nuff didn't like no airplane getting cut-up like this!

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Robbie, God bless ya for that.

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Hahaha, no, he sure wouldn't like that one bit! 8)

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Those look more like fuel explosions than ordnance explosions...

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I don't see what the big deal is. It's just a little stack fire on startup.

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If I remember correctly, it's a Pope bird that lost power on all four in Iraq shortly after takeoff. The pilot put it down on a flat area but the damage to the belly was severe. It was deliberately destroyed in-place....

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Scroll down on the following link for a full set of pictures of this aircraft and it's destruction...

http://cargolaw.com/2008nightmare_hercules.html

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