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First U.S. plane lands at Baghdad airport
Reuters | 4/06/03

Posted on 04/06/2003 10:38:22 AM PDT by kattracks

First U.S. plane lands at Baghdad airport

BAGHDAD AIRPORT, April 6 (Reuters) - The first U.S. military aircraft landed at Baghdad airport on Sunday, a U.S. military source told Reuters.

"At least one aircraft has landed at the airport," said the senior source in the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division's aviation brigade, who was at the airport.

He said a C-130 military transporter landed at about 8 p.m. local time (1600 GMT), about an hour after dark, on the western, military side of the airport. He gave no details of whether it was carrying a load.

U.S. forces seized the airport, some 20 km (12 miles) southwest of the city centre, on Friday. They said on Sunday they controlled practically all road access to the city too.

04/06/03 13:15 ET


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: battleforbaghdad; bia; c130; supplylines; viceisclosing
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To: Bogey78O; kattracks
All your airports are belong to us!!
41 posted on 04/06/2003 11:35:42 AM PDT by Anamensis (Regime change began at home in 2000.)
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To: F-117A
I'm certain that was the same disabled M1A1 that shown on the FNC/Greg Kelly 'Exclusive Video'.
42 posted on 04/06/2003 11:36:02 AM PDT by golas1964
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To: RightOnline
Aren't turboprops driven by a jet engine configuration??
43 posted on 04/06/2003 11:36:35 AM PDT by my right
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To: AgThorn
I was thinking about all of the "Pot Holes" our bombs put in the runways...I wish I could get the army engineers to repair my road that fast! :-)
44 posted on 04/06/2003 11:37:07 AM PDT by Normal4me
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To: golas1964
it was, M1A2 SEP was taken out by an rpg from the overpass, they hit the top of the engine and the explosion hit the tc causing head wounds ( which were fatal ), crew spun the turret around and took out the slime balls, other crews assisted and lit off a thermite to melt the inside, did you notice the ragheads still attacked it even though it was toast on Friday !
45 posted on 04/06/2003 11:42:56 AM PDT by 1poedpatriot
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To: kattracks
Half the luggage still on carousel at Heathrow.
46 posted on 04/06/2003 11:46:11 AM PDT by flitton (embedded by the tv for the duration)
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To: kattracks
Puleeeeeze stop the propaganda, we all know that Airport is still Saddam International, and the brave Iraqi Democratican Guard has chased the cowardly Coalition Forces out of the country. Talk about walking on water-picture two hundred thousand troops, running on water.

The famous elite democratican Guard has secured Iraq from the invaders, and Saddam will soon crawl out from under the rock under which he has been curled up in the fetal position, sucking his thumb since the first bomb fell, and declare victory.

Did I mention that this is sarcasm?
47 posted on 04/06/2003 11:50:18 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell ( Patriot is as patriot does, it's practicted for life, or becomes patriot, was.)
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To: F.J. Mitchell
hunh, " the coalition have not been able to leave Kuwait due to the loyal iraqi's forces hiiting the infidels where it hurts " Baghdad Bob
48 posted on 04/06/2003 11:54:13 AM PDT by 1poedpatriot
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To: my right
Turboprop = turbine powered propeller
49 posted on 04/06/2003 11:56:35 AM PDT by Techster
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To: F.J. Mitchell
I am saddened. Deeply saddened.
- Tom SaDaschle Hussein
50 posted on 04/06/2003 11:59:52 AM PDT by MattGarrett
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To: F.J. Mitchell
You forgot to mention that our Marines are running out of food..
51 posted on 04/06/2003 12:00:02 PM PDT by ewing
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To: Techster
Turboprop = turbine powered propeller

Could you define diff. between turbine and Jet?

52 posted on 04/06/2003 12:01:00 PM PDT by my right
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To: kattracks
The first elements to be deployed to an airport would be the Air Traffic Controllers, their Runway Service Unit, (RSU a mini control tower) and the communications support to make the airport operational!

This kit fits in a C-130 and would be followed by the Logistics equipment needed to handle cargo and control overall operations.

If this were a hot zone then 130s could always use LAPES, (Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System) cargo drops where they would extract the cargo at touchdown height and then barrel back into the air, (developed in Viet Nam). Since they've landed the 130, the establishment of normal operations would appear to be the method chosen.

53 posted on 04/06/2003 12:06:17 PM PDT by Young Werther
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To: kattracks
I guess Baghdad Bob won't be cashing in his frequent flyer miles right away.
54 posted on 04/06/2003 12:07:39 PM PDT by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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To: Republic of Texas
A lull is a subset of a quagmire. This was a quagmire at the outset and will remain so until the next country is fought over. Within the quagmire we have pauses and lulls.
55 posted on 04/06/2003 12:11:01 PM PDT by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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To: SC Swamp Fox
Largest? Oh, there are larger. The C-130 really isn't that big. Of course, I flew KC-135's, and on the ramp at Dyess AFB back in the '80's, side by side with the Herky Birds, those -130's looked pretty small. :) Check out Russian military aircraft if you want to see some BIG honkers with props.
56 posted on 04/06/2003 12:16:04 PM PDT by RightOnline
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To: kattracks
By the way, all the -130 can land on a very, very short landing strip. The fact that a -130 landed at BIA doesn't mean much except symbolically.

Now, if I see a -135 or a C-5 or a KC-10 or some such land/take off, I'll truly be impressed.:)

57 posted on 04/06/2003 12:17:27 PM PDT by RightOnline
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To: browardchad
"This German guy hinted last night that they might not be free to leave."

Wonder how many German citizens'll be moved by that…

58 posted on 04/06/2003 12:19:22 PM PDT by elfman2
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To: 1poedpatriot
Lawdy! Lawdy! Things are even worse than I thought. Do you suppose our pitifully inadequate troops can hold the Iraqi's out of Kuwait, til a force of French surrender experts arrive to teach our troops how to fabricate white surrender flags and train them in the fine art of surrender?

I don't know whether to invest my life savings in Burka stock, or portraits oh Hussein. I imagine either is soon to be the route to great wealth.
59 posted on 04/06/2003 12:19:51 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell ( Patriot is as patriot does, it's practicted for life, or becomes patriot, was.)
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To: Republic of Texas
BBC agreeing this is nothing more than a Steven Speilberg production.
60 posted on 04/06/2003 12:21:56 PM PDT by OldFriend (without the brave, there would be no land of the free)
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