@Strong Arm: They actually couldn't pay for the parts for salvage. As military components, they are usually illegal or highly regulated to own/posses. They would have to be salvaged by a military crew or a crew supervised heavily by the military. Then each part would have to be documented through multiple destructions. The scrap that they would be allowed to keep in the end could not equal what it would cost to attempt to salvage.

Git Em SteveDave is starless

This post fails to mention that the plane is IN IRAQ! One should probably be able to gather as much from the reference to the IED, but still - that wasn't a detail important enough to put in the post?

XanderCrews

Is there a theme going today with shit that blows up?

andrelix

They should have called the 447 Expeditionary Force. They blew one up in July.

@strider_mt2k: Hey, I only speak two languages. English and bad English.

Git Em SteveDave is starless

@Strong Arm: Who are you going to pay to salvage an aircraft in a war zone?

If the military that paid for the plane deems it unfit to do so you think sending a CONTRACTOR in will go much better?

You first.

strider_mt2k

If only we could do the same thing with injured kids.

General Halfshaftery

Haha anyone reminded of this?

+ Watch video

andyo

Why not just sell it to some private parts company, i am sure they would pay a fair amount for it. Urgh..

Strong Arm

Big badda boom.

Badda BIG boom, that's right!

strider_mt2k

Never trust a squaddie called Skippy.

WeeWillyWinkie

That kind of thing happens more than you'd think. Cheaper(!) to blow it up than to extract and reuse/rebuild.

Jeb_Hoge

"Farking 'el, look at that"

Ahh, how professional. And how very British. Seriously guys, that's how a lot of us sound. We're not the tea drinking, crumpet eating nancypants most of you think we are, most of us are just loudmouthed yobs.

craig_16

@Strong Arm: As TFA said that they couldn't salvage anything because of time constraints, and because they probably didn't want, say, jet fuel in the hands of the same people that whacked their plane to begin with, they were (air)forced* to do something totally sweet for the sake of, er.... national security? Not because it's awesome or anything, I swear! *Worst pun ever. Sorry.

slibville

@Strong Arm:
Lets take the time to take it apart and hold a public auction for all the parts in the middle of a warzone teeming with insurgents who have already disabled the aircraft at that location with BOMBS. We all know there are scores of people over there with nothing better to do but take pictures and manage hundreds of eBay auctions. Brilliant.

Bluesk1d

Ahhh... I don't blame them. Blowing stuff up is MUCH more fun than salvaging it. Anyone notice the engine flying with the mostly intact propeller?

Froggmann

@Git Em SteveDave is starlost: Right, that's where I verified as much. Should I have had to click through to find out, especially given that I initially read the post in Reader?

XanderCrews

@XanderCrews: It was mentioned in the article it was linked from. From said article, ""The aircraft was destroyed by coalition forces the day after after sustaining heavy damage in an incident while landing at a remote site in Iraq's Maysaan province on 12 February 2007."

Git Em SteveDave is starlost

Ah gee, that would have made a nice hotel.

BigDogues

Yeah, yeah, I know, we will send a team out there with clipboards and manifests to properly document each part, write down the serial number, put it in a bin and send it to the reclamation dept. at the pentagon. Oh yeah and we will tell them they are ordered not to die or get blown up untill they are completely finished filling out all the forms in triplicate.

VideoVampire

i bet they had a cup of tea after that...

and skippy - you lucky b*stard.

digitalhen

I bet there's a cute littl' angel of a 12 year old girl who can disassemble an M16 in 15 secs that loved this video.

sharmanova

Nobody - and I mean nobody - swears like us Brits.

Except maybe the Irish.

cbdsteve

FOOKIN EL!

Ya gotta Love the RAF.. they're so eloquent!

Dinotech

"Fookin' 'ell look at that!"

Yay for Yorkshiremen!

@digitalhen: Yorkshire pudding more like! With extra lumpy gravy!

will

@ VideoVampire 'Yeah, yeah, I know, we will send a team out there with clipboards and manifests to properly document each part, write down the serial number, put it in a bin and send it to the reclamation dept. at the pentagon. Oh yeah and we will tell them they are ordered not to die or get blown up untill they are completely finished filling out all the forms in triplicate.' At the pentagon? Why on earth would any of the paper work go to the freaking Pentagon you dumbass red neck. Its a British plane and it was British soldiers. All you had to do is READ.

AltonPanoptes

Oh, that's the British solution for everything: Throw Dynamite at the problem...

DeusExMach

dint we have a similar video with americans blowing up a crashed plane just a few days back?

mister_s

@cbdsteve: God Damned Right.

DeusExMach

You got to love them brits
They sure know how to boogie. And boy do they know how to blow money away like its nothing. If i would've saw that i wouldve said thats 82million dollars there and here i am making a half assed salary.

SneakerFiend

@Alfonzo: Well, the chances of a English plane falling into enemy hands while in England is very low. As for the pieces, I am sure they were summarilly gathered by the locals to be used in a variety of ways. You know how much people in America pay for a plane propeller fan? They can make one for free.

Git Em SteveDave is starless

@cbdsteve: Yes, the Brits would have us think they are all prim and proper, but truth be told, they like it DURTY. The durtier the better actually. God save the Queen.

Curves

way to pollute another country with your scraps of metal and other trash. they wouldn't do this in england.

Alfonzo

I cahn't believe you've done that.

dylanwho

Yeeehaaah, Jester's dead!!!

MyPetFly

@MyPetFly: I wonder if they got Pinball out from the wheel well before they blew it.

Git Em SteveDave is starlost

Er, I forgot to mention they lost two C-130 aircraft in Iraq. Both were destroyed by the RAF.

bbfreak

In the USAF's defense, they weren't trying to blow up their C-130 to nothing but little pieces. Just enough to break it up and then truck it off. While the Brits just went for stuffing as much explosives as they could find in the aircraft and then blowing it to high hell! Oh, and just so you all know the Brits lost two C-130 aircraft in 2007. This one on the 12 of Feb, and another one on August 23rd! So there is possibly another video out there!

Then again, this first video doesn't look very formal (IE, no mention of the unit that did this job). Looks like some Brit with his own personal video camera. While the USAF video was documented with pictures, video that ultimately looks more professional. So maybe there is no second video because some Brit didn't have a video camera!

bbfreak

@bbfreak: I'm guessing in order to avoid more paperwork, they were required to document it better.

Git Em SteveDave is starlost

That was bloody awesome

ryanobo66

Aww lost a C-130 with those sexy 6-blade props :( I love the look of those Hercs

shenanigans61

@Git Em SteveDave is starlost:
Multipass??

Sorry, I just bought the Ultimate Edition

cerebrus