| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | January 14, 1969 |
| Time: | 0815 |
| Location: | Near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii |
| Operator: | Military US Navy |
| Flight #: | ? |
| Route: | - |
| AC Type: | McDonnel Douglas F-4J Phantom II |
| Registration: | - |
| cn / ln: | - |
| Aboard: | 0 (passengers:0 crew:0) |
| Fatalities: | 0 (passengers:0 crew:0) |
| Ground: | 28 |
| Summary: | On board the aircraft carrier Enterprise, a huffer (MD-3A aircraft starter unit) was being used to start the engines of several planes before takeoff. Its hot exhaust was inadvertently pointed at a plane armed with Zuni rockets in such a way that one of the Zuni warheads ignited. Spilled fuel and other weapons then burned and exploded causing many millions of dollars of damage. |
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