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Air Force to punish 70 for nuke error / Disregard of rules let bomber fly cross-country with six armed missiles
PAULINE JELINEK Associated Press
Sat 10/20/2007
Houston Chronicle
A main reason for the error was that crews had decided not to follow a complex schedule under which the status of the missiles is tracked while they are disarmed, loaded, moved and so on, one official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record.
The airmen replaced the schedule with their own "informal" system, he said, though he didn't say why they did that or how long they had been doing it their own way.
