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Originally Posted by Tog_
If the claim that sparked the question is the one I think it is, it would have been a Vietnam era plane. In broad terms, it's that the blast of fire from a "wet start" was sufficient to "cook off" munitions on the plane behind it.
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Yes, that's right, an A-4 actually. Piloted by. . . Oops, can't say that!
I also found the story a bit hard to accept. There's actually some footage from the incident on youtube, and it looks (to my non-professional eyes) like the A-4s are positioned so that the engine exhaust ports are pointed off the deck.