MONAHANS, Texas — An Air Force stealth fighter accidentally dropped three dummy bombs into rural areas near the Texas-New Mexico border, including one that may have struck a home, officials said Tuesday.
No injuries were reported.
Monahans Police Chief Charles Sebastian said Air Force personnel were headed to the area to retrieve the object.
Tech. Sgt. Paul Coupaud, a spokesman for Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, N.M., said the fighter had been on a training mission. He said he was unaware of how far the intended target was from where the munitions fell.
"A board of Air Force officers will be appointed to investigate the incident," he said.
One resident, Dick Aker, said an object crashed through his former daughter-in-law's house in Monahans, about 33 miles west of Odessa in south Texas.
"It crashed through the roof and then went through the bathroom wall and into the floor breaking a water pipe," he said.
The other munitions fell in remote areas of Pecos, Texas, and Maljamar, N.M., according to the Air Force.