The nation - news from aug. 5, 1986
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An unarmed Tomahawk cruise missile fired from the battleship Iowa malfunctioned and automatically aborted its flight, landing in a southern Alabama swamp, the Pentagon said. The incident
occurred about 16 miles west of Monroeville, Ala., more than an hour after the missile was launched in the Gulf of Mexico. The aborted flight followed a successful test of another Tomahawk
the day before, said a spokeswoman for the Pentagon’s cruise missile office. MORE TO READ