That almost happened to me...

Flying my great planes FW190 arf equipped with a bomb drop...

Some buddies of mine also had rigged bomb drops on their planes (one was a cub...imagine a cub dropping vortac flour bombs)

My FW had a 61 in it and was super fast

We put a coffee can in the middle of the field (guess we thought we were good enough to hit that or something) and began our bomb runs.... my buddy with his Cub, I think a friend had one on a sukhoi or some kind of aerobatic plane. I put my FW in a power dive at a 45 degree angle to where I THOUGHT the coffee can would be (hard to glance quickly at that thing and watch your plane). It was really boogie-ing.

I had retrimmed the plane a little earlier to have a SLIGHT nose up in the dive...I let the bomb go about 100 feet above the field at what I thought was the correct trajectory. I literally watched the bomb fly all of the way to the ground and explode just in front of the can by a few feet. I looked back up to the plane and it was 2 feet (HONEST) from the ground, though level. Yanked hard and just missed the dirt.

My ol' knees were a-knockin' that day!!!

If I hadn't retrimmed, it would have hit, I am certain. It was trying to pull itself out without me, but still wouldn't have made it.