How Accidentally an F-16 Fighter Jet Bombed the Japan

F-16 Fighter Jet Bombed the Japan

Ø   In Japan station a U.S. Air Force F-16 stationed accidentally dropped a bomb on the private property.

Ø  The report of the accident blames the error of the pilot, including (the attention of the channelized).

Ø  There were no damages and there were no casualties on the ground, and the pilot was again trained and to give him the compulsory guidelines and the pilot was eventually placed back on duty for the job.

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F-16 a Falcon fighting jet of a U.S Air Force fighting jet mistakenly dropped a bomb on private property miles from a bombing range in the Japan. The Air Force investigated and released the report of the accident report earlier in the first week, though the incident mistakenly happened and the incident took place on 6 November 2019. After investigating the all things and to knowing actually how the incident was happened the Air force report explains that the error of the pilot error caused the laser guided bomb GBU-12 laser to strike the wrong target miles away from the actual target. And hit the wrong target miles away in the Japan.

Fighter an F-16CM from the 14th Fighter Squadron having a training mission was flying at the range of Draughon Bombing, that was approximately was located 15 miles away from the fighter’s home base at the Air base of Misawa.

And the accidentally and mistakenly the pilot sent the GBU-12 flying to a location of the target he believed there was another F-16 was spotting for him. Instead, the bomb was sent to another location, away 3.4 miles, far and off the bombing range—on the private property. Fortunately there was no property damage and No one was killed or injured during the incident that was mistakenly happened.

The bomb GBU-12 Pave way II is a (five hundred) 500-pound bomb that fitted with a laser seeker technology and control fins that in a good way to guide the bomb to target. Drone, the releasing aircraft, other aircraft, or unit on the ground will (paint) the target with the help of a laser beam technology. Once the bomb is dropped, the seeker homes in on the laser energy reflected off the location of the target.

The Laser guided bombs are also called the (smart bombs) like the Pave way II are the bombs that are considered   as the (smart bombs) but are only as smart as the data targeting. In this case, The Air force report after investigating the incident explains, the pilot was flying a nighttime suppression of enemy air defense (SEAD) mission and was cleared to drop an inert (non-explosive) GBU-12. And due to the weather, Due to scattered clouds that was spread at the 6000 to 8000-foot level, and because of that the pilot was not in a position and was unable to see the target himself clearly. The pilot asked to another aircraft in his 3 ship formation to transmit target coordinates, and another plane did so. Unfortunately, the pilot apparently became confused, depressed and mistakenly dropped the bomb on a different set of coordinates.

The Air force report blames (channelized attention) changing weather, scattered clouds in the air, and there was technically error in the targeting. For errant drop. The pilot believed that if one of the other aircraft in his flight could see the target it was safe to drop the bomb and not to hit the wrong target. Unfortunately, and mistakenly unknown to all those that was involved in this incident, the pilot acted and performed on an incorrect data targeting. 

According to the Air Force, after the incident immediately both the aircraft and pilot were grounded. The pilot of the aircraft was disqualified from the duty, retrained in the handling of the weapons, and Air force was ordered to brief train the all the other pilots at Misawa “on the sequence of events leading up to the mishap to prevent a same kind of the incident.”

Periodically the Incidents like these happen but are particularly disruptive at overseas bases where the local governments are sensitive to the presence of foreign troops on their soil. Later on the Government of Japan issued a (severe protest) over the handling of the Air Force of the incident and was particularly incensed it was not informed until the next day. In a incident of the March 2018, base of another F-16 at Misawa dropped two external fuel tanks in a lake because of its two engine caught fire.

Source of the News: Air Force Maginize.