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Oct 29 15 9:18 PM
A MILITARY surveillance blimp worth more than $1.9 billion crash-landed in central Pennsylvania on Wednesday just hours after it broke loose from its tether in Maryland.The crash took out power to a nearby school.The unmanned aircraft, one of two JLENS, or ‘Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defence Elevated Netted Sensor Systems’ that have been surveying the US east coast, came detached around noon (Maryland time) while hovering at an altitude of nearly 5000m, according to the Baltimore Sun.Students at Columbia-Montour Area Vocational-Technical School in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania tweeted that they saw the blimp go down near the school.“It knocked out the power. When we went outside it was going down on the other side of the building,” tweeted Fisher P. Creasy, a student who posted a video of the blimp around 1:30pm.
A MILITARY surveillance blimp worth more than $1.9 billion crash-landed in central Pennsylvania on Wednesday just hours after it broke loose from its tether in Maryland.
The crash took out power to a nearby school.
The unmanned aircraft, one of two JLENS, or ‘Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defence Elevated Netted Sensor Systems’ that have been surveying the US east coast, came detached around noon (Maryland time) while hovering at an altitude of nearly 5000m, according to the Baltimore Sun.
Students at Columbia-Montour Area Vocational-Technical School in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania tweeted that they saw the blimp go down near the school.
“It knocked out the power. When we went outside it was going down on the other side of the building,” tweeted Fisher P. Creasy, a student who posted a video of the blimp around 1:30pm.
Read more @ http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military-blimp-worth-19-billion-crashes-in-pennsylvania/story-fnpjxnlk-1227586463240
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