-: It was a medium level sortie and we were
dropping thousand pound bombs
and everything, uh, everything went well.
It was almost benign on the way into the target.
Pretty much immediately after weapon release
there was an almighty explosion and there were
flames coming out of the left wing pretty much immediately.
And certainly at the time I thought that we'd been hit
by an air-to-ground, a ground-to-air missile,
which was, we knew there was a site located
further to the south of us.
The, and so we turned off target as planned
but pretty much as soon as we saw those flames
coming out of the left wing we knew we weren't
actually going home that night.