HIP vessel explosion (16-ton fragment ejection)

Tail of a case from a prior session. The world's only HIP vessel capable of all aircraft-engine disc work; a sixteen-ton piece landed a quarter mile away in random direction. Saved from being a multi-billion-dollar problem because a second vessel was coming on stream in three months.

It's in the paper, but they sort of didn't tell everybody that the sixteen-ton piece landed a quarter mile away. If it had landed on somebody's house, the news people might have picked it up. But I can tell you that the safety officials, the fire department, the police department, the mayor's office — they were not happy to know that they had a plant that actually had something that could be sending sixteen-ton pieces a quarter mile away in a random direction.