Military says bug distracted missile truck driver

BISMARCK, N.D. — A truck driver who lost control of a semitrailer carrying missile parts from North Dakota's Minot Air Force Base was distracted by a "large insect" that flew in a window and landed on the driver's back, the military said in a report released Friday.

The Air Force said the truck from the base's 91st Missile Wing, which overturned Aug. 31 on a gravel road in northwest North Dakota, was carrying rocket engine parts for intercontinental ballistic missiles but no nuclear material. The shipment also contained two 14-gallon tanks of liquid rocket fuel, but never was in danger of exploding or leaking, the military said.

It was the second crash of a base vehicle in just more than a year. The Air Force spent about $5.6 million last year to recover an unarmed booster rocket for an intercontinental ballistic missile after the truck carrying it overturned in July 2008. The military blamed "driver and safety observer error" for that accident and said the public never was in danger.

The Air Force report released Friday also blamed the latest accident on driver error, saying "the driver became distracted ... when a large insect flew into the driver's open window and landed on the driver's back."

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2009/10/10/news/top/doc4ad0b6ffd7bb9605150454.txt

And some of them bite!

:hurts:

... We're talking really big here. Especially those horsefiles. :(

and a turban ... AlQueda Beetle


:rofl:

So the saying goes.

It looked positively prehistoric.

It looked a lot like this.




If this thing flew into my truck and landed on my back I would crash too.

Yes I would.

Bugger could eat your arm before you know it!

I have one sitting on my microwave all dead right now.

Part of me says I don't want to know - but it's the disingenuous part. I do want to know.

Or sitting up on the steering wheel like some folks do? Minot AFB, isn't that where they accidentally loaded nukes on a plane that flew across the United States of America?

Some strange happenings there for sure.