Posted on 06/27/2004 8:22:16 AM PDT by Fast5
Maybe that's how they were injured?
was hit about 22km west of the airport
What altitude would a C-130 be 22km out from takeoff?
Still within small arms range?
So, wasn't talked about in a post the other day, or am I wrong? The one with the reporter who met with the man who had taped the execution of the Italian hostage?
Disclaimer: no expert here.
Thank God it's only "insurgents" and "guerillas" doing this. A terrorist would be a real problem.
Owl_Eagle
Guns Before Butter.
And thank goodness the insurgents and/or guerillas are followers of the Religion of Peace, otherwise things could get really dangerous.
The article says they were hit by small arms and wounded. Wounded is not a word that would be used to explain injury caused by being bumped around. I would also say a C-130 would not climb at an angle so steep as to throw someone about the cabin, and surely not several, all of whom would have had to be unsecured on takeoff.
I am surprised this kind of incident doesn't happen more often. A .50 caliber MG is still considered small arms but man can it do some damage.
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you are just spreading hype.
at 10,000 feet is just a small bullet hole, unless it passes thru a person and that person is you.
It would be million to one shot that a single 50 cal bullet would bring down a plane at 10000 feet.
Length: 61.42 inches (156 centimeters)
Weight:
Gun: 84 pounds (38 kilograms)
M3 Tripod (Complete): 44 pounds (19.98 kilograms)
Total: 128 pounds (58 kilograms)
1 dead, Fox just reported. Plane made it back to the airport, but 1 dead.
Ok. thanks. Anyway, IMO , time to blow something up with our large arms, then.
I would think some terrorist got a lucky shot in with an man portable surface to air missle, like a stinger, Blowpipe, or an SA-7.
The thing is, that far away, it seems someone knew their flightpath. That's the only way they would know where to wait for the shot..am I right?
Yup. That was Abu (something) who said he was moving operations to Baghdad to shoot down airplanes. That's what I thought I read too.
An aircraft could take off and use an up-the-stairway pattern to climb to maximum altitude, and thus minimalize the "footprint" over the ground used for the climb. It would take a bit longer, since some energy is lost in the turns, but perhaps well worth the extra time and fuel.
I just heard that too. He (or she), we don't know yet, died of wounds after they returned.
Fox said it wasn't one of our planes. ~whew.......
"Aerial photographs of Baghdad international airport flashed up on another screen and he [Abu Yussuf] talked of shooting down planes there.
I made a weak, nervous joke, asking whether he could ensure that there would be no such attack on the day of my flight out of the country.
I cannot promise you this the decision is not mine and I cannot tell my comrades not to attack if they are ready to do so, he answered, utterly without humour.
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