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US 'spy plane' makes emergency landing in Russia after 'problem with its landing gear'
Daily Mail ^
| 7/28/2016
| Will Stewart
Posted on 07/28/2016 8:22:39 AM PDT by orchestra
A United States 'spy plane' has made an emergency landing in eastern Russia, it has emerged today.
The surveillance Boeing OC-135B aircraft was flying a mission over Siberia as allowed under the Treaty on Open Skies when it reported a problem with its landing gear.
The unarmed plane made an emergency landing at Khabarovsk airport, but a military source in Russia has questioned whether the technical glitch was genuine.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: 2016dncconvention; aerospace; aviation; bhorussia; boeing; iquestionthetiming; nationalsecurity; openskies; russia; spyplane; surveillance
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To: VTenigma
I call Bullshit..Why would the status of the landing gear be an issue while cruising at altitude? If they had a problem, why continue into Russian airspace? Gear problems are an issue during takeoff and landing..not cruise. Fly to Osan or Tokyo to burn fuel, manually lower the gear and land..Who in the hell is making decisions these days?
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:36:05 AM PDT
by
AFret.
To: InterceptPoint
James Comey will get to the bottom of it.
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:37:48 AM PDT
by
orchestra
((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
To: orchestra
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:37:50 AM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
To: TalonDJ
Are we the only two people on this thread who know what “Open Skies” means?
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:39:28 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
To: orchestra
Some of that “additional flexibility” on display ...
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:39:42 AM PDT
by
dartuser
To: TalonDJ
So what you are saying is that because of the malfunction of landing gear and the need to emergency land more than 1000 miles away...Russia can look at all data as per the Treaty????
This whole things sounds fishy.
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:40:16 AM PDT
by
RummyChick
("...Americans think Trump is running 2 help America &Hillary is running 2 help Hillary" ~Ben Shapiro)
To: orchestra
I wonder what the special delivery was.
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:40:31 AM PDT
by
exit82
(Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
To: 2banana
2 come to mind. Hydraulic leak or gear door coming unlatched in flight.
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:41:44 AM PDT
by
Kadric
To: orchestra
Just the Negro from Nairobi paying off Vladimir Vladimirovich for not releasing the contents of Rotten Cankles’ server.
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:41:52 AM PDT
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: NorthMountain
You may be the only two. It is not something I had heard of before.
Maybe a pilot can chime in and tell is if stuck landing gear would have required them to emergency land as they did 1600 miles away.
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:42:03 AM PDT
by
RummyChick
("...Americans think Trump is running 2 help America &Hillary is running 2 help Hillary" ~Ben Shapiro)
To: exit82
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:42:21 AM PDT
by
orchestra
((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
To: orchestra
Don’t suppose that Putin was given the top secrets to stop release of hacked emails?
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:42:25 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: bubbacluck
“Maybe the landing gear were stuck in the down position. Doesn’t that make it hard to fly?”
It would increase drag and thus fuel consumption and reduce range, and maybe create other problems due to having the gear doors open.
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:43:11 AM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: Kadric
Assume one of those two things happened. Was there another course of action that could have been taken rather than land where Putin gets access to all the info
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:43:49 AM PDT
by
RummyChick
("...Americans think Trump is running 2 help America &Hillary is running 2 help Hillary" ~Ben Shapiro)
To: dsc
I saw yesterday that Guccifer 2.0 already admitted the leak to wiki.
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:44:34 AM PDT
by
orchestra
((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
To: mountainlion
“Don’t suppose that Putin was given the top secrets to stop release of hacked emails?”
BEARS REPEATING
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:44:42 AM PDT
by
RummyChick
("...Americans think Trump is running 2 help America &Hillary is running 2 help Hillary" ~Ben Shapiro)
To: butlerweave
Just Bill Clinton on another tarmac demanding a meeting.
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:45:22 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: orchestra
Something fishy here.
When would a crew find ‘landing gear problem’, and what is the normal sop for such ‘emergency’?
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:45:56 AM PDT
by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
To: McGruff
Ms. Hillary & Teddy Cruz would agree with that.
To: bubbacluck
Maybe the landing gear were stuck in the down position. Doesn’t that make it hard to fly?Not as hard as flying long distances with multiple engines out which is what they are required to be capable of.
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posted on
07/28/2016 8:46:33 AM PDT
by
fso301
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