The pic is either incorrect or misleading too. If they are on a Transport plane as it says, & which would be the case as they were being supplied to someone else's Military (if it indeed happen that they were)they would be crated up & in the hold. THAT pic shows them hanging off the wings of a combat aircraft.

Also, I would imagine that with modern explosive fillers, that unless they are primed (& the last stages of priming take place in the last few seconds before dropping) even an air crash would not detanate the bombs to their full potential, nor would the explosion & fire ensuing from the fuel aboard. THAT would cause more damage than the bombs.

Having said that, I still disagree with staging them through anything other than a Military airfield. Civil airports , by their very nature, are far more vulnerable to terrorist attack, should a highly motivated individual attempt to interfere with the transport of ordnance.

Potentially worse & more sinister to my mind though is that, as Folkie Dave responded to: Why use a civil airport? - Probably because they can........... Bloody AIRSTRIP ONE, thats all we seem to be to the US Military sometimes.

special bloody relationhip indeed...