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Was looking at the Bob Hope Flight monitor and trying to find that plane/helicopter shown in front of the missile. Only thing I could see that was not labeled as a medium to large passenger airline, was a E120 plane. Saw no Cessna's or Helicopters in that area. Image of that plane is below. Could it be this plane type ?

I think you may be correct about the aircraft type, but will go back and look. I think we won't get a rock solid identification, though...the image isn't good enough. However, the truly, truly awesome aviation expert Hardraade says it was going backwards, and therefore cannot be a fixed wing aircraft. He says it was a USN Chinook with a dipping sonar, off to chase the ChiCom sub.

So, you guys should get your stories straight. Otherwise,someone might think one of you is a planeloader mole. Maybe you, hairyape, because you don't have sufficeint devotion to the ASW Chinook theory. ;-)

I think we won't get a rock solid identification, though...the image isn't good enough.

Maybe Contrail Science should get their story straight. They claim Cessna. And they even use their photoshop tricky to try to prove that. Personally am still investigating the issue, since it is very difficult to see from that image. It was either that E120 or something that was not giving out a transponder code that the Bob Hope Flight Monitor could see. Nothing else shows up. No Cessna close.