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To: thefactor

Looks like another million dollar missile was used to destroy it.


22 posted on 03/22/2011 4:56:48 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: org.whodat
Yeah...looks like the cabin area was subject to a thermite fire.

Nothing of value left there for anyone...

34 posted on 03/22/2011 5:43:02 AM PDT by NELSON111
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To: org.whodat

Unlikely. Too much wreckage in one spot. Even in missile strikes where the crew gets out, large chunks of the airplane tend to fall far way from the rest of the bird, and the damage affects the aerodynamics in such a way that the plane “departs from controlled flight” and augers in. Here we see the nose cone, cockpit, wings, all in on place and belly down in the same attitude it would be in if it had done a belly landing. If it wasn’t for the broken vertical stabs, I’d presume the thing kept on an even keel after the crew punched out and just kind of crash landed.


86 posted on 03/22/2011 10:25:05 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: org.whodat

I don’t think that a munition was expended to destroy it? The missiles are still fairly intact. AIM-120C and AIM-9M. Think back to the F-117 shot down in Yugoslavia? Far too many civilians around the wreck to justify its destruction. The last thing that the Coalition wants is a group of anti-Gadaffi civilians killed.


109 posted on 03/22/2011 3:08:53 PM PDT by Tommyjo
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