Posted on 03/22/2014 12:45:01 PM PDT by servo1969
I have yet to read anywhere how much fuel was loaded before takeoff. I know that the information is available. Just haven't seen it.
So you are of the opinion that the Chinese government would not be willing to sacrifice 100 nationals if they could help advance -- while keeping their fingers cleanly off -- the nuking of an American or Israeli city.
Pretty sure their calculation is: what's one more or less peasant in the scheme of things?
This incident will leave a lot of casualties in its wake and the General reputation is likely to be one of them.
I have no idea what happened and no guesses beyond speculation. However, I have observed many of our retired Generals have become conspiracy theorists. Ironically, this coincides with them becoming paid talking heads or pimping their websites/blogs where they get advertising dollars for page views.
Beebers stuned you’re cross-link, their chum.
and if that plane flew anywhere near Kazakistan or even Pakistan then US military radar in Afghanistan would have painted it. But they didn’t.
Furthermore there would have had to be a 9th ping if it flew from Kazakistan into Pakistan but there wasn’t.
Wear’d they go?
Those of us with grammatical Eros can’t tolerate grammatical errors.
You are assuming that Gen. McInerney is speaking out without the blessing of those who are working on this behind the scenes.
That’s awesome
Facts?!
Some people.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3135643/posts?page=28#21
If the destination was Pakistan then what the h*** would it be doing along that 8:11 arc all the way up in Kazakistan???
Define soon. I'm kind of hoping to see the last season of Justified.
As long as it stayed 200 NM off coast of India, it would not be detected flying to Paki. Bothers me that Pakis have nukes ...
The plane was flown to Mexico. Of course its been chopped into a million pieces by now.
Notice they all end in 11. Therefore: Pakistan.
“If the destination was Pakistan then what the h*** would it be doing along that 8:11 arc all the way up in Kazakistan???”
Good point. If so, they overshot their landing several hundred miles and crossed a whole bunch of monitored airspace in the process.
His itinerary didn't make sense to me and had to cost a LOT of money.
Your statement was incorrect. The "arc" went from near Pakistan to the southern Indian Ocean.
And no...it could have evaded the military radar in Afghanistan if it had gone into Pakistan. Its very mountainous there and you can't see through the mountains. At just .5 degree elevation....and at 100 nm away....anything below 10K feet is not seen. Make that 200nm and you can fly at 30K feet and not be seen.
And that isn't including any beam blocking by the mountains...that's if it were over the ocean. The curve of the earth ensures stealth.
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