[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT, MUNITIONS: El Centro (CA) range incident

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy officials continue to warn of danger on bomb ranges

By ELIZABETH VARIN
Imperial Valley Press (CA)
April 29, 2010 1:01 AM PDT

PLASTER CITY — The U.S. Navy continues to warn people of the danger of 
being on a bombing range after a truck came within 2,000 feet of one of 
the targets and was hit with a practice bomb Saturday.

Student and instructor pilots from Kingsville, Texas, were training 
Saturday morning with T-45 Goshawks, training jets, out at the site 
north of here, said Cmdr. T. Robinette, operations officer for Naval Air 
Facility El Centro. One of the pilots dropped a 25-pound inert training 
round, which landed no more than 200 feet from the target.

After it hit the ground the ordnance skipped about 2,000 feet and hit a 
truck between its front fender and wheel, he said. No one was injured, 
and the car was drivable afterward.

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For the entire article, see
http://ivpressonline.com/articles/2010/04/29/local_news/news05.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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