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Thank you for doing the research to find the bases, now to determine, who fixed the planes to crash.

I have to ask, "were they expected to crash on the Carriers?"

Four or more military planes crashing in one day, is too many to be an accident, when they are not shot down.

Sure makes one wonder if the Military airfields are close enough to the water, to allow a scuba diver to come in and fray a cord, etc, that would lead to a crash.

Are the guards in the guard shacks, looking for boats to come in? and allowing the scuba diver to slip onto the flight line?

If the coast is un-peopled and a diver can get close to the flight line, he won't need a boat, simply go into the water and swim to a spot that will allow him to come up, do the dirty to the planes and swim back on the same route.

As I recall it, the two dead scuba divers on the east coast, did not have belts or tanks, but then they would not be needed, if the goal was to only swim a short distance, on the top of the water.

The rubber suit, would both protect him from the cold and make it harder to spot him on a dark night.

Crashing those planes, is a plus to the terrorists, as now they won't be dropping missiles on the terrorists heads.

Please, pass the tinfoil.

Ok, here's the review:

1) A Navy F/A-18 "Hornet" on a training mission out of Beaufort, S.C., crashed into the Atlantic Ocean about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, 3/24. The jet, part of the VFA-82 "Marauders" based at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C., returned Feb. 25 from a six-month deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom aboard the USS Enterprise. The cause of the crash is under investigation. Yes, Beaufort, SC is on the coast.

2) A US Navy F/A-18C Hornet jet crashed shortly after take off in Raleigh, North Carolina on Friday, 3/26. "The aircraft was on a routine training flight and the accident is under investigation," Commander Lydia Robertson said.

The jet was assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 15, based at Naval Air Station Oceana in Norfolk, Virginia. "The pilot ejected and the aircraft did ... crash on the runway" at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, said Kathleen Bergen, a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman.

The pilot, Wesley Baumgartner, was able to safely eject from the aircraft. He is at Wake Medical Center and is reportedly in good condition.

RDU spokeswoman Theresa Damiono, said no other airport facilities were damaged, and no other injuries were reported.

Damiono said the fire from the plane's wreckage has been contained. She said there was no information on what caused the crash and it was not clear if the plane came apart before or after it struck the runway.

3) The Navy is unsure if the pilot of a fighter jet that crashed near a rural highway in Rhea County, TN clipped power lines 75 feet over Watts Bar Lake before he ejected.

Navy Lt. Ken Shade says the pilot, Navy Reserve Comm. Kevin Hagnstad, broke a leg when he ejected from the one-seat training jet that crashed about 11:00 a.m. Monday., 3/29.

A Tennessee Valley Authority spokeswoman says high-voltage lines over the Watts Bar Lake were severed and fuel tanks were jettisoned in the water. Officials are not saying if that happened before the pilot ejected miles away.

Shade says the accident is being investigated. He says the jet was one of two returning to Naval Air Station Atlanta from the Tri-Cities Regional Airport in Blountville.

He was unsure if the jets participated in a weekend flyover at the Bristol Motor Speedway.

Both the departure point and destination are several hours from the coast.

4) Two Oceana-based pilots were rescued Monday 3/29 after the crash of their Navy F-14 off the coast of San Diego.

The plane, part of VF-31 - the "Tomcatters" from Fighter Squadron 31 - based at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach was performing flight operations with the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis.

The F-14 Tomcat went down about three miles off Point Loma shortly after 11 a.m., according to Steve Fiebing, public affairs officer for North Island Naval Air Station.

The home base is east coast, and this jet was on training manuevers onboard an aircraft carrier off the west coast.

I am sure I won't be around tommorow when you post the new thread. It looks like you will be getting there very soon. Who ever decides to do it...Please keep the following in mind. Jim Robinson is now hosting the Threat Matrix graphic on FR.

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Please use that link for the graphic and not the one we have been using. This will take the load off "Thecabal"'s PC.

Also Jim related the following to me:

"By the way, the threads will load a lot faster if the poster includes width and height parameters for the image:

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Jim Robinson

Please pass this on to whoever is the lucky poster.

Thanks and goodnight.