Posted on 02/16/2005 6:34:31 AM PST by Indy Pendance
DUBAI (Reuters) - A fuel tank falling from an Iranian plane could have caused an explosion in Iran's Bushehr province, where the country is building a nuclear power plant, Iran state television said on Wednesday.
"A local source said the explosion could have been the result of the falling of an empty fuel tank from an Iranian plane," Al-Alam said.
The Arabic-language channel also quoted other witnesses as saying that an unknown aircraft fired a missile on Wednesday in a deserted area near the southern city of Dailam, which is in Bushehr province.
Better yet if thew blew themselves up. Fighter fires missle at US drone spyplane, misses spyplane and hits reactor, resulting nuclear reaction destroys half of Iran. Heh, heh.
It went back home to Mama?
lands on a heavily mined field. booyaah.
The exploding fuel tank falls from aircraft onto nuclear site. Dam explodes. Something exploded in each case, therefore there must be a connection. Thus the exploding dam caused the aircraft's fuel tank to explode onto the nucler ssite. This makes sense.
Thanks for the info..FYI..somewhat related..I sae a show on the Discovery Channel early this week about the USS Ronald Raeagan..her maiden cruise from shipyard to San Diego. It said that unlike all previous CVNs, the Reagan has only THREE arresting wires, but they are much stronger...greater capacity..so that now planes returning with unused ordance...missiles, smart bombs..don't have to jettison them..then can land because the wires can take the added weight..would this also apply to drop tanks..and what about the risk of landing with ordance in the event of a crash?
bingo
Well, since most stuff in the inventory doesn't have contact fuses or just contact fuses alone, planes land safely with warshots on 'em all the time.
And they haven't blamed the Jews yet? I'm almost alarmed that they haven't. Definitely not business as usual.
And yes, that applies to empty, external fuel tanks as well...
Iranian military says no attack on Dailam
www.chinaview.cn 2005-02-16 23:54:02
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-02/16/content_2585191.htm
TEHRAN, Feb. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday that an earlier report of a missile fired from an aircraft near the southern port city of Dailam was wrong.
Ask United... lol
EMPTY fuel tanks are especially dangerous!
Thanks..BTW..I'd check your TV listings to see when the show is repeated..well worth watching...also of interest..they interviewed one of the squadron commanders, who said that because of the switch to only three wires, they were experiencing about twice the number of bolters as before..geez..as if they needed to make it "more" exciting...
Whole lot of spinning going on in the media.
And it's not just Al Jazeera/CNN......
LOL....now the idiots are saying that it was just road blasting......
That was a whole engine that fell off!...........
Or they were testing a home-grown Fuel-air Explosive device.
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