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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Rogue Insect Takes Down Missile Truck

A 91st Missile Wing payload transporterIt sounds like the opening scene of a B movie: A giant bug lands on a truck driver transporting intercontinental ballistic missiles. The trucker swerves off the road, inadvertently kicking off Armageddon.

The unthinkable didn’t happen when a truck driver recently lost control of a tractor-trailer carrying missile parts from Minot Air Force Base, N.D. But according to a statement released Friday by Air Force Space Command, the incident — which did not involve nuclear materials — was in fact caused by a “large insect” that landed on the driver’s back.

This was the second crash of nuclear missile base vehicle in just over a year. Last July, the Air Force had to recover a truck carrying the rocket booster for an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile after it ran off a gravel road in North Dakota. According to the Associated Press, cleaning up after that mess cost $5.6 million.

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