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Two Super Hornets down in Persian Gulf

Postby mrjake2002 » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:44 pm

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... -gulf.html

The three crewmembers ejected safety and were rescued by teams from the aircraft carrier USS Truman.
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Re: Two Super Hornets down in Persian Gulf

Postby C » Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:11 pm

Doh. Lets hope it was a simple accident and/or collision. I'd rather a couple of USN personnel were in trouble for hitting each other than find Armoureddinnerjacket and his mob had anything to do with it.
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Re: Two Super Hornets down in Persian Gulf

Postby Craig. » Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:15 pm

It does raise a few questions after the supposed confrontation with the US navy recently.
However I doubt thats the case.
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Re: Two Super Hornets down in Persian Gulf

Postby mrjake2002 » Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:18 pm

It does raise a few questions after the supposed confrontation with the US navy recently.
However I doubt thats the case.


That's what I was thinking.
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Re: Two Super Hornets down in Persian Gulf

Postby Ivan » Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:24 am

It does raise a few questions after the supposed confrontation with the US navy recently.
However I doubt thats the case.


That's what I was thinking.

Loaded or not-loaded.... maybe they didnt want the neighbours to sniff around in the debris field after the crash (one or both of the aircraft is a E hornet) and went over the territorial line.
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