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TomcatViP
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Obviously. You are absolutely correct.
But if some airbases are fitted with appropriately constructed hangars (remember that we are not talking of a routinely used compound that does have to sustain the day to day heavily regulated activity), then perhaps the impact that have this kind of incident could be statically reduced.
The plan anyway was to park everything in this hangar what led to the potentially high damages rate since it was not able to sustain the wind gust experienced. So the planning is not faulty and makes senses. But the material (hangar design) or the objectives set were probably not adequate with the task or deemed strategic enough to be fully understood . It can be also that plans were not up to date with the rise of occurrence, costs of potential losses, shortened alert time and magnitude of such events). Was there a failure? Certainly. The question is not who to blame but, since we have here a systemic failure, how it could have been prevented.

My 2cts from far far away…