North Korean Fliers Said to Have Sought Hostages

The New York Times ^ | 03/08/03 | ERIC SCHMITT

[Texas_Jarhead]

looks like the KN commies learned well from the Chinese commies.

[Texas_Jarhead]

KN = NK

[tarawa]

"the pilot made internationally recognized hand signals to the American flight crew"

I would bet the flight crew made a different 'internationally recognized hand signal' right back at them.....

[tomahawk]

Pardon me if this is a stupid question, but why do we allow these very precious surveillance aircraft, this one and the one the Red Chinese took, to fly solo without fighter escort.

I know they're flying in international airspace, but the Commies don't respect it, and these planes make very tempting targets for them. I would give fighter escorts, so the Commies are kept a safe distance away.

Do you send your relatives to bad neighborhood alone? No, you go with them and pack heat. So should the USAF & USN.

[July 4th]

These guys are really asking for the crap to be bombed out of them, aren't they? After what happened with China, I don't think that landing in NK would have been an option. Either get to SK or ditch. Then, throw the fighters in the sky and finish off each and every nuclear plant.

[TLBSHOW]

china = North Korea = commies = both are the enemy!

[jimtorr]

They didn't learn very well. It's a different proposition forcing down a large four-engined jet over the Sea of Japan than a small turboprop aircraft over the South China Sea. For one thing, help was a thousand miles closer.

[CJ Wolf]

Imagine if they got that plane, what technology they would transfer.

[Newbomb Turk]

They were most likely looking for FOOD.

[PhilDragoo]

The crew aboard the RC-130 made internationally recognized hand signals to their Mig pursuers.

Which enflamed tensions resulting in the splashing of a Mig.

The others turned back to base.

[CyberAnt]

Hmmmm?? Looks like I was right - their stunt was a dry run.

[Right Brother]

LOL.

[Texas_Jarhead]

ok, I stand corrected. They learned but not well. Better?

[1rudeboy]

In April 2001, a United States Navy surveillance plane collided with a Chinese fighter that was closely tailing it.

Let's see, was the editor asleep at the switch (preposition at end of sentence), or was the editor happy with the inference that the U.S. plane hit the fighter, and not the other way around? Tough one.

[leadpenny]

. . . small turboprop aircraft . . .

Small? I think you may be hearing from some P-3 Orion crew members.

[uncbob]

Pentagon officials have acknowledged they were caught off guard by the intercept on Saturday night

There was absolutely NO EXCUSE for this stupidity of having no fighter escort

Sure as hell doesn't fill me with confidence in our leaders

[American Soldier]

You don't know anything, do you?

The U.S.'s nimble, high-performance hegemonous recon plane made a "big left move" before Wang Wei could move his slow, lumbering fighter jet out of the way.

You are obviously a running dog lackey of the Bowery Street billionaires.

[Spruce]

I'm not trying to underestimate th North Koreans, but the threats they make are just plain stupid. They obviously have no grasp of American thinking. They wallow in lameness.

[tomahawk]

If the Pentagon got caught with their pants down on this one, what are they going to do when we do Iraq? Has affirmative action completely ruined the military brass?