MSNBC: N Korean MiGs Intercepted US Reconnaissance Plane -

MSNBC ^ | March 3, 2003

[cmsgop]

100 frigging miles off the coast?????

Jeez talk about longing for company

[tomkat]

FNC strikes again ...

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[glock rocks]

it's on FOX NOW !

[pfflier]

What connection does North Korea have with Iraq other than a desire to see the US fail?

They have offered Hussein sanctuary. If he accepts he can run the "Arab World" in exile.

[glock rocks]

false alert... just locked radar on our plane

[cmsgop]

WERE NOT CRAZY!!!!!! LMAO! Thanks tomkat.

[Dog]

THERE WAS NO SHOT DOWN!!!!!!!!

FOX MADE ANOTHER MISTAKE!!!!!!!!!

[tomkat]

FNC may have the 'fair and balanced' business down pat,
but they still got a ways to go in the 'here and accurate' department ...

[michigander]

WERE NOT CRAZY!!!!!!

I'm still not convinced. About you not being CRAZY that is. :-)

[ez]

aggressive enough for me put some f-14's up and SHOOT THEM DOWN somebody needs to show the little pot bellied nutcase in pyongyang they better not screw with us

Patience, grasshopper. All in good time...

[Dog]

Look at the photo in post 102......FOX just made a huge blunder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Normal4me]

I KNEW I was'nt crazy! LOL Thanks Tomkat.

[McGruff]

Calm down, Fox has changed their story

[McGruff]

Calm down, Fox has changed their story

[tomkat]

good job on that screenshot !

gotta get me one of them dandy cards

[AmericanInTokyo]

As I said, there is not a single thing in fast moving, up-to-date, Japanese or Korean language news in East Asia at the moment. Yonhap, Choson Ilbo, KBS, YTN, Yomiuri, Kyodo, Sankei, Mainichi, NHK. Yahoo Japan. Yahoo Korea. Any development like that would no doubt appear there, first. (3:58 p.m. Eastern)

[aeronca]

"Intercepted or downed??

"Shadowed" was the word that Bair used. I have a still shot

[E Rocc]

From the article:

Two MiG 29s and two other fighters believed to be MIG-23s intercepted the U.S. jet about 150 miles off the North Korean coast. One of the fighters "locked on" to the U.S. plane. The fighters shadowed the U.S. RC-135 for about 20 minutes. The plane returned safely to base in Japan.

The Mig-29 is a nice fighter, the 23 less so. Still, I doubt they fly them very often and they don't have very many. Our 16s and 18s will eat them for breakfast, the difference being maintenance, training, and skills.

-Eric

[AmericanInTokyo]

The jerks (probably) took a story off Dow-Jones, and some young, green GenX cub reporter just out of J-school working the Fox editor's desk peed his/her pants and misinterpreted "intercepted" as "shoot down."

Man, this is amateur.

Watch the silence from Fox about apologizing over this.

[Franking]

More likely the Nimitz is just relieving the Lexington, which IIRD has been on station for something like 10 months now and needs to get back to port.

F