Hounds can't fly

"There better be a good explanation, Major Gaviota."
The commander of the Santa Banana Air Force, and currently its only member, nervously looked at the president and then his eyes rested on the mound of dirt in front of him.
"Yes, there is, Presidente. I took Lieutenant Sabueso up in Veronica..."
"Veronica?"
"Yessir, our Tiger Moth. I don't know who named it but it stuck."
"Continue."
"And he forgot to fasten his seatbelt and fell out ouf the plane. He made quite a crater when he fell so we just buried him right there. Why waste a perfectly good hole?"