Posted on 10/11/2017 7:44:02 AM PDT by markomalley
Junk news for the geography impaired idiots in America and the pearl clutchers!
Maybe North Korea used automatic bullets. ;)
That’s a hell of a shot and they are waaaaaaaaay more advanced in their weapons systems than we thought, if they pulled that off.
The title is absolutely credible as long as you also find credible the following sentence:
“Ultralight’s engine fails over the state of Maine, but glides to successful San Diego landing”
Since when is Okinawa near NK? Has it been moved?
Are you serious?
#1 Have you looked at a map?
#2 Have you ever been on a flaming or disabled helicopter? You put down right now!!
#3 There are many US bases in South Korea that could have been used for an emergency landing.
The NORKS didn't do this, the helicopter did.
Sometimes helicopters just go down... it is just a fact. Prayers for the crew. Hope it wasn’t because a container ship was in their lane.
It would have flown to one of the air bases in Guam instead, but the crew was afraid that the extra weight would cause the island to tip over.
On my smart phone, that map shows NorKLand is less that an inch from Japan. The NorKs could have easily shot down the helicopter. </sarc>
Up until the 1600s the people of Okinawa were not considered part of Japan, or part of any other country. Then for nearly two centuries the whole Ryukyu Island chain was a kingdom or series of kingdoms with a vassal or tributary status with either China or Japan and sometimes both. In the 1800s Japan kept moving, and eventually did move, to claim formal Japanese authority over all the Ryukyu chain. Some older Okinawans still don’t consider themselves Japanese, and there is a Ryukyu Independence political movement active today. It also cross-feeds off the sentiments from the movement that opposes the large U.S. military presence on Okinawa (about 62% of U.S. bases in Japan).
Drama Queen title. Yet another pinhead looking to be the first to declare something so it guesses.
It does no one any good, not the flight screw or passengers, not their families, not the military, and not us to guess at such a thing.
It certainly doesn’t do the author any good to be labeled an untrustworthy and unreliable drama queen.
Yep. Thousands of moving parts that all rely on each other for proper operation. If one fails it’s usually pretty bad.
tongue-n-cheeky
Okinawa is near North Korea?? Retards.
Okinawa is not anywhere near North Korea
This writer and his editors are dunces
If KN was downing aircraft over Okinawa they’d already be at war with Japan and us
While in the sandbox our USMC Infantry son and his guys board a helicopter, the Crew Chief turns out to be our next door neighbor.
Shortly into the flight, smoke starts billowing from a transmission(?) in the ceiling!
Lots of smoke.
Upon return to the world, I ask some of the guys about it.
They said, ‘neighbor, nice guy, but we NEVER want to see that bird again’.
I ask the neighbor, he waved it off said ‘nothing to worry about’.
Wonder if Hank Johnson lodged a complaint and concern about this helicopter landing on Okinawa and the possibility of tipping the island over?
I simply cannot see a team of Norks with manpads sneaking around on Okinawa or even getting there. I know it is a a very different place since I was stationed there in 1970 but the logistics problem would seem to be insurmountable.
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