{"id":171645,"date":"2025-07-15T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=171645"},"modified":"2025-07-14T22:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T02:07:18","slug":"bad-day-to-refuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=171645","title":{"rendered":"Bad day to refuel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Inflight refueling of F22 Raptors went badly wrong on July 8.<\/p>\n

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A KC-46A Pegasus refueling tanker was forced to conduct an emergency landing July 8 after its refueling boom was shredded in a mishap off the East Coast.<\/p>\n

The unofficial Facebook page Air Force amn\/nco\/snco posted photos of the KC-46 Friday, which showed extensive damage to the plane\u2019s refueling boom. The War Zone first reported the damage to the KC-46.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The boom itself was damaged and the underside of the KC-46A tanker’s underside was torn up.<\/p>\n

The photos show most of the boom is ripped off, with its remaining metal ripped and twisted and a chain hanging down. The underside of the plane\u2019s tail was also dented and scraped, which may have occurred from the damaged boom.<\/p>\n

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In my decidedly unprofessional opinion, that ain’t gonna buff out.<\/p>\n

The KC-46, which is from McConnell\u2019s 22nd Air Refueling Wing, was refueling F-22 Raptors from Joint Base Langley-Eustis that afternoon when the mishap occurred, Van Winkle said. The crew declared an in-flight emergency and landed safely at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina without any injuries, he said. The F-22s returned to their home base.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No reports on what, if any, damage the fighter(s) sustained.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first such incident – quick search for “inflight fueling accident” turns up similar reports August 2024 and November 2022.\u00a0 Think now is a good time for one of our resident experts to let their thoughts be known?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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