SFOR Responsible For The Crash?

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[Destro]

Web posted February 28, 2004

Source: A1 TV and Dnevnik

SFOR Responsible For The Crash?

"If the investigation shows that the engine of the plane didn’t run well, the flight controllers on Mostar flight will bear direct responsibility for the plane crash, that is to say the French battalion of SFOR", a source close to Bosnian team, which investigates the plane crash in which Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski and Macedonian delegation were killed, told "Beta" agency.

"At the moment when the plane hit the hill, it was even 650 meters lower than minimally allowed flight height. Also, during the fall, the plane of the Macedonian Government was only 15 air kilometers away from the airport in Mostar. That radius vector is under direct control of SFOR navigation team", says Bosnian Interior Ministry’s source, who wishes to remain anonymous.

According to him, the question arises on "why SFOR, being a direct controller of the flight during whole day and night, didn’t announce the exact location of the plane crash and why the search for the missing plane took 24 hours, if they saw on the navigation system where the plane had crashed".

The source added that, still, these were mere assumptions and that the most credible information would be the one provided from the analysis of the black boxes, A1 Television transmits.

Dnevnik daily in its Saturday issue reported the words of Mladen Ivanovikj, Foreign Miniser of Bosnia and Herzegovina who said Friday that SFOR will be requested to submit more detailed information on the reason why NATO search lasted so long and wasn’t successful.

This information stirred up the doubts that something is definitely wrong with the SFOR’s conduct. How is it possible not to find the plane the whole day when it was away as much as Vodno [Mountain in Skopje’s vicinity] is away from Skopje, at the transparent spot and weather conditions which weren’t so disastrous? Dnevnik daily made an attempt to get a commentary on these dilemmas but Macedonian Minister of Justice Ixet Memeti said that he was satisfied from the search and denied to give any comments until the investigation is completed.

[Destro]

Bosnian officials showed signs of irritation with NATO's handling of the crash. Bosnian Foreign Minister Mladen Ivanic said the wreck was quickly spotted by a Bosnian army helicopter once SFOR let them start looking. Bosnia complained on Thursday that SFOR had prevented it from flying over the site for the first six hours.

The Mostar control tower was manned at the time by military controllers of the NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR), according to Bosnian and Macedonian officials.

[Destro]

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[MEG33]

Pilots are known to makes errors ,too.It's a bit premature,I would imagine to blame SFOR.

[steplock]

"SFOR had prevented it from flying over the site for the first six hours"

Making sure Sec Brown was dead? Ooops sorry --- wrong country this time!

Sure could be the same "unfortunate accident" with the nav beacons for the IFR giving inaccurate info? But what about GPS? what's a little tweaking on altitude among friends? - for test purposes only, of course.

[Destro]

Well if it happened that way - worked the first time did it not and the second time's the charm.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Clearly SFOR would have been more careful if everyone on board were Albanians and Bosnian Muslims. It's all part of the worldwide, eternal plot against to Serbs keeping them from taking their rightful place as the total and sole leaders of the Christian West.

Right? Of course right.

[Destro]

What has this to do with the Serbs? The people on that plane were not self described Serbs.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Well, if you post it, it must be to protest the worldwide conspiracy against Serbs. Or maybe the conspiracy against the Orthodox. Or perhaps just the conspiracy against bigots. It's so hard to tell sometimes.

[Destro]

The President of FYROM who died in said airplane crash was neither Orthodox nor a Serb. Like always your posts are a waste of time.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

If they're such a waste of time why do you bother to respond to them? Seems to me they're more of a threat to your ongoing campaign to engender hatred and bigotry against Muslims than you let on.

[Destro]

cause a reply bumps the article to the top of the list.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

An excellent excuse for not admitting that you fear what I say: which is of course the truth.

[Destro]

How can I fear you always being wrong? I celebrate showing your errors. Thanks for always finding my posts, and thanks for allowing me to once again bump this article to the top.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

How can I fear you always being wrong?>>

You never, ever need fear that. I never am. Which you know.

[A. Pole]

It's so hard to tell sometimes.

Either way your phrase which I use in my tagline is excellent. Good job!

[leadpenny]

Somehow I knew, when this accident was first reported, that there would be conspiracy theories. Weather happens, pilots make mistakes, mechanical things break and sometimes terrain crashes into airplanes. It's an unforgiving kind of business.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

What? You DENY that it was an anti-Serb plot? You must be an Al Qaida agent! </ s a r c a s m>

[leadpenny]

I don't fly for a living anymore but I can think of dozens of times during my military and civilian flying career where I look back now and say, "Here, but for the grace of God . . . "

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/month.asp

The above site keeps things in perspective for me.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Having seen much more than my share of scary flying days in the mountains of Bosnia myself, I cannot but agree.

The former Yugoslavia is NOT Nevada on a clear summer's day....

[Destro]

and the Balkans is the last place for concpiracies to occur of course...