re: #249 William Barnett-Lewis

I hope there’s enough of the fragments left to figure out exactly what went wrong. There shouldn’t have been enough set back for the fuse to go off normally at that point, so I tend to wonder if it was broken or had been mishandled at some point. Odds are that we, the public, won’t ever hear the details (unless it becomes a mess like the Iowa turret explosion they tried to hang on a sailor instead of too old powder) but hopefully they can figure out how to prevent a recurrence.

Lots of potential issues to look into. Issue with the tube, with the round, or possibly even with the fuse. Also unlikely, but a possibility that someone really messed up procedurally and dropped a second round into the tube on top of a round that failed to launch?