The cargo planes assigned to dropping food and water over the mountainside were one C-17 and two C-130 aircraft. They were escorted by a pair of F-18 jet-fighters, the administration official said. The cargo aircraft were over the drop zone for about 15 minutes, and flew at a relatively low altitude, the official said.
Perfect MANPADS bait.
17 posted on 08/07/2014 8:22:15 PM PDT by upchuck
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care.)
First, they're over a mountaintop without adversary in that location, and second, a missile fired from a lower elevation is not going to find the target over the ridgeline and third, no surface-to-air missiles in that area anyway.
28 posted on 08/07/2014 9:15:26 PM PDT by steve86
( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)