Recently, Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians from the U.S. Air Force were looking to get rid of a stranded C-130 Hercules cargo plane, north of Baghdad. So they decided to blow it up. So when the British military — who taught the Yanks much of what they know about EOD — was faced with a similar situation, you just knew they weren’t going to pass up a chance to set off that big of a boom.
Flight International has details on the detonation. "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."
