‘Full of Asbestos’: Australia Buried 23 F-111 Bombers in a Coal Mine, and Why It Was the Right Call

Only the fuselages went into the pit — the asbestos was bonded into the panels themselves, and a country that had already paid the deseal-reseal price wasn't asking workers to carve them up. The full story of Australia's F-111s, from the drawing-board order to the mapped graves at Swanbank.