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In article .com, "Mike"
wrote:


Total damage to the airplane, according to sources inside the Pentagon:
$1.28 million. Not only did the firefighters ruin the canopy, which
cost $286,000, they also scuffed the coating on the airplane's skin
which will cost about $1 million to replace.

That latter part was totally avoidable. I don't know why there wasn't a
crew chief there to tell the firefighters to lift the canopy off to the
side, rather than set it down on the airplane.




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