Air Force Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) personnel with the 44th Air Expeditionary Group watch as a controlled detonation separates the forward section of a C-130 Hercules at Sather Air Base, Iraq, July 7, 2008. The EOD team is using a series of controlled detonations designed to divide the airplane into smaller pieces so it can be moved. The C-130 made an emergency landing in a field north of the Baghdad International Airport shortly after take off. Tech. Sgt. Jeffrey Allen

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