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New Palmdale [California] Mom, 27, Killed In Central Asia Air Force Tanker Plane Crash
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| May 5, 2013 4:00 PM
Posted on 05/05/2013 6:44:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
05/05/2013 6:44:23 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
why does she get more attention than any of the others that died???
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posted on
05/05/2013 6:50:29 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: BenLurkin
Mothers in the military on the front lines. Brought to you by the leftist PC hacks of DC. ‘Equality’ they say—explain that to her now motherless son.
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posted on
05/05/2013 6:51:17 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Truth or Tyranny)
To: BenLurkin
I wonder if a MANPAD struck this aircraft or another Surface-To-Air missile of some sort.. Perhaps part of the scores of MANPADs that are ‘missing’?
To: Chode
To pose that question is to answer it. One day we will pay.
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posted on
05/05/2013 6:53:50 PM PDT
by
Elsiejay
To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
So far, no evidence of a MANPAD attack; but it is rather odd that we’ve lost three aircraft in that region over the past week; a civilian 747 cargo jet that went down at Bagram (load shifted on takeoff, sending the aircraft into a stall); an RC-12 recce bird that went down in southern Afghanistan, and more recently, the KC-135.
The Stratotanker has been around forever, and it’s a very reliable platform—almost no history of them simply blowing up in mid-air. At first glace, it sounds a bit like a KC-135 that exploded while descending in to Howard AFB, Panama back in the 1980s. It was eventually determined that the crew left a pump running in an empty fuel tank after their in-flight refueling operation was complete. The pump overheated and ignited fuel vapors that remained in the tank. However, fixes were supposedly implemented to prevent that from happening again.
To: Chode
Palmdale is in the KCBS viewing area.
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posted on
05/05/2013 7:02:31 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Elsiejay
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posted on
05/05/2013 7:03:11 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: ExNewsExSpook
So far, no evidence of a MANPAD attack Spark in the center fuel tank.
To: BenLurkin
thx...
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posted on
05/05/2013 7:07:09 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Only three killed? Have they changed the number of a flight crew?
In the past, you had the Aircraft Commander, Co-pilot, Navigator, and boom operator/cargo master.
On many missions one maintenance person from the ground often flew with them. I logged many a mission over SE Asia in one.
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posted on
05/05/2013 7:17:00 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Do we now register our pressure cookers?)
To: BenLurkin
Wonder if The other Capt was a Dad?
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posted on
05/05/2013 7:20:15 PM PDT
by
JaguarXKE
(Welcome to the new America.)
To: JaguarXKE
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posted on
05/05/2013 7:21:11 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
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To: Chode
Just a hunch, but it’s a dateline from Palmdale and she was from there.
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posted on
05/05/2013 7:24:12 PM PDT
by
JaguarXKE
(Welcome to the new America.)
To: BenLurkin
An Air Force grad is probably not an “airman”. Just saying.
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posted on
05/05/2013 7:56:48 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?)
To: BenLurkin
It sounds like the optempo for getting stuff out of Afghanistan is taking its toll.
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posted on
05/05/2013 7:58:01 PM PDT
by
socalgop
To: BenLurkin
RIP
To: JaguarXKE
yeah, i didn't look at the dateline-my bad, Ben pointed that out to me in #7
i guess i'm so jaded as to the L$M PC crap anymore that i take it for granted now days... RIP
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posted on
05/05/2013 8:28:05 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Benito Cereno
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posted on
05/05/2013 8:33:10 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
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