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 This one from Joe McGuire, was passed along by Larry Guss.
Joe writes: "This aircraft that was over pressurized at ground level. The outflow valves which are used to maintain the pressure of the aircraft were capped off during a 5 year overhaul and never opened back up. The post-investigation on this one revealed...one of the causes was a civilian depot technician who, 'had always done it that way,' was using a homemade gauge, no T.O. and not much brain matter besides. In fact, his gauge didn't even have a max "peg" for the needle and so it was no surprise he missed it when the needle went around the gauge the first time. Now, as the technician continued to pressurize the aircraft, in about 1 and 1/2 seconds, and as the needle was on its second trip around the gauge, the aircraft went "boom" - the rear hatch was blown over 70 yards away."
 Somebody's gonna hear about this. Santa always has the right of way, y'know. Thanks to Dick Rosenbaum of McLean, VA.
 Who left the door open? It's a heckuvva way to clean out the airplane.
 "You go on down to Hampton and take the C5 underpass, see?" I'm told that the C5 driver took a wrong turn, taxied down a dead end and couldn't turn around. They had to import a tug to get him outta there and on his way again. This one, from my old buddy, George Larson, Editor of Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine.
 Here's one you don't see every day; the B52 and B2 together. They're flying off Diego Garcia, that tiny flyspeck island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Look it up and you'll know where they're going.
 Obviously, that C17 driver had urgent business on that carrier.
(It's a joke, folks. Never happened. Really.)
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