Posted on 12/07/2005 4:33:22 AM PST by nuconvert
-Iran has some 15 C-130 E and H types dating from the mid-1970s
-A modern US variant is the AC-130 - a heavily armed gunship version - used in Iraq and Afghanistan
-First flew: 1956
-Max. take off weight: 69,750kg Engines: 4 Allison turboprops
-Range: 2,356 miles
Videos and photos of crash site at BBC link above
Make that 14.
hey, i have a couple of vouchers for a flight on iranian national airways, any takers?
Oooh, stop us before we kill again. If you can't get spare parts then don't fly the plane, doofuses.
Well, now we see why there's a furor.
BBC crap!
Right. They can't keep a cargo plane aloft and people are worried about us smacking them down?
Just imagine these murderous morons with nuclear missles.
The best solution would be for the Iranians to build their own planes.
Even as we speak, Iranian aviation engineers are investigating the lift/drag characteristics of various carpet designs in the transsonic flight regime...
;-)
Somehow I knew they would figure out a way to blame the US. No surprise here. I expect Kerry to make a similar observation.
Lol. Know anything about Iranian-built cars?
Actually they started building their own planes in the last year or two with the help of Ukraine. Ukrainian-Iranian plane.....Scary!
Well, that's one way of dealing with the Fourth Estate.
You'd think what happened to Daniel Pearl would've taught them something.
HF
"We don't care if you're on fire! It's prayer time down here!"
Wow. Those chaps have other problems besides the lack of spare parts.
Mayday, mayday !
No mayday for you ! /Soup Nazi voice
They really have a them now for "Death To America Day"...as soon as they can cook up theory as how American Spys and Zionist Jews brought down the plane.
"...Officials blame the high frequency of crashes on a lack of aviation spare parts due to US sanctions..."
Well; Faith an' B'gorrah!!; It's WORKING!
Do you suppose that the doomed Pilot was made "an offer that he couldn't refuse" - like the muzzle of a 9mm pressed up against his head? - As well as probable assurances that if he took the bullet in stead of the "offer", that his Family would be exterminated as well?
And how, pray tell, are these knuckleheads going to afford missle technology from the Russians if they can't afford to even keep their existing inventory of aircraft from falling out of the sky - despite the invisible, upholding hand of Allah, and without any help at all from the Israeli Air Force??!!
If they can afford Russki state of the art anti-aircraft missles, you'd think that they could afford a few Russian planes as well, now wouldn't you?
Here's hoping that the Muzzies don't take any better care of the rest of their military infrastructure than they do of their airplanes.
Seeing their first missle launch on Israel pull a "boomerang" and nuke their own launch site would be precious, wouldn't it?
Hey; can't we arrange for a tour of Iran for our own MSM pundits - on board of one of THEIR airplanes?
How are US sanctions to blame when a Russian built Ilyushin crashes?
OOh!; That's gotta HURT!
The site looks a bit like a sorry attempt to re-enact 9/11 right there in sunny Iran, IMHO.
Do you suppose that the Pilot was sufficiently PO'd by having been forced to fly what he probably knew was to be his last suicide mission (I wonder if some of those "reporters" on board had been overly critical of Mr. Aiatollah Kummhanni lately?) that he intentionally kamakazied the biggest building in his glide path?
It does not look to me as if he went out of his way to avoid the building - although I would think that a direct hit on a bldg. this size by a fully loaded C-130 would not have left much standing.
Didn't we have a Secretary of Agriculture for the Klinton Syndicate meet a similar fate on board a US C-130 down in South America?
Odd coincidence if we did, I suppose.
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