MADEIRA BEACH — A fisherman found a live 8-foot-long missile in the Gulf of Mexico and dragged it ashore Monday to Madeira Beach, where a bomb squad from MacDill Air Force base was summoned to dismantle it.
The boat Bold Venture was about 50 miles off the coast of Panama City when it hooked the air-to-air guided missile, authorities say. The captain told authorities he'd seen similar objects in that area of the gulf in the past.
The captain brought the missile to shore. Just before 6 p.m., Madeira Beach firefighters and Pinellas sheriff's deputies were summoned to the parking lot of the Fish House Restaurant, where the missile had wound up. Authorities then requested the MacDill Air Force bomb squad.
"This is a live air-to-air missile," said Pinellas sheriff's spokeswoman Marianne Pasha. "It is 8 feet long, and the MacDill team is dismantling it. It's going to be a while."
Authorities were not allowing anyone within 500 feet of the missile's location.
captoveur wrote:I am not seeing the huge news story... Eglin has been testing weapons forever.
Boris wrote:captoveur wrote:I am not seeing the huge news story... Eglin has been testing weapons forever.
Yeah, and Eglin's over 300 miles away from where this thing was "caught"...
TUSpilot wrote:Boris wrote:captoveur wrote:I am not seeing the huge news story... Eglin has been testing weapons forever.
Yeah, and Eglin's over 300 miles away from where this thing was "caught"...
Over water Iran would be the best place to practice with live weapons.
Boris wrote:
Yeah, and Eglin's over 300 miles away from where this thing was "caught"...
