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U.S., Kuwait ask whybombing went terribly wrongWASHINGTON-- A team of Kuwaitiand U.S. investigators sorted by means of evidence on Tuesday tryingto learn how and why a U.S. Navyjet dropped a 500-pound bomb nearobservers at a training range, cleaningsix of them. The F/A-18 Hornet was taking partin a twice-yearly training flight onMonday when the accidenthappened. The training flights have been aregularly schedule part of thePersian Gulf area militaryexperience for 10 years -- since a multinational force repelled an Iraqiinvasion of Kuwait and promise to keep the tiny oil-rich nation safe in theaftermath. But on Monday, something went wrong. A Navy pilot practicing "close airsupport" for ground military man suddenly dropped live ordnance near anobservation area, according to the U.S. Central check. The blast killed fivesome Ameri lavs and a New Zealander, 27-year-old actingMaj. John McNutt. The names of the five Americans killed have not beenreleased. Five other Americans and two Kuwaitis were injured. Two of the injured have already been released, and some of the injuredAmericans were evacuated to a U.S. airbase in Germany. Central Command appointed an investigation board to arrive later this weekin Kuwait, where U.S. and Kuwaiti officials were already trying to learnwhether the error that led to the accident came close to in the air -- the pilotsmistake -- or somewhere on the ground, either from faulty direction for airtraffic controllers or a tragic miscommunication that localise the observers inthe line of fire. "We will work hard to take care of the families involved, and to find out howsuch an accident could occur," U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H.Rumsfeld said in a statement. It shouldnt happenMeanwhile, New Zealand PrimeMinister Helen Clark pressed foranswers into the death of hercountrys soldier. "We dont, in the normal course ofevents, expect to have people comehome in body bags," she said. "Its a terrible tragedy and ... we arenow looking for an urgent, detailedexplanation as to how such atraining exercise can go so terriblywrong," said New Zealand DefenseMinister Mark Burton. "This was alive bomb basic eithery dropped on observers. It shouldnt happen and we allneed to know precisely what went wrong." Kuwaiti defense chief of staff Lt. Gen. Ali al-Muaman apologized for theincident, pledged a thorough investigation, and said that the accident wouldnot stop shape up joint military exercises in the region. U.S. President George W. Bush, speaking in Florida, also offeredcondolences and led a moment of silence before a speech promoting his task cut. Second Navy accident in a month