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Dutch pilots give Nasa video of Columbia
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Posted on 02/14/2003 5:16:16 AM PST by chance33_98
Dutch pilots give Nasa video of Columbia
13 February
AMSTERDAM — Two Dutch air force pilots have given Nasa a video that might be the clearest images of the last moments of the doomed space shuttle Columbia, according to an NOS news report.
The report said that the two pilots were on a routine training flight in an Apache ground attack helicopter at Fort Hood in Texas when the aircraft's cameras filmed the shuttle as it broke up during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere on 1 February.
The Apache's camera footage is better than that by video cameras used by civilians. Nasa told NOS it was hopeful the new pictures would help in the investigation into the disaster.
The Dutch military operates several US-made Apache helicopters and the pilots carry out some of their training in the US.
On 12 February, Nasa's top official Sean O'Keefe told the first US congressional hearing into the tragedy that throughout Columbia's 16-day mission there were "no indications" the disaster would occur.
Nasa has released an audio tape of the last conversation between its mission control and the shuttle's crew, but the BBC reported that it is still unclear what caused Columbia to disintegrate 40 miles (65km) above the Earth, killing all seven astronauts.
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To: chance33_98
Tin foil alert! Tin foil alert!
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posted on
02/14/2003 5:39:01 AM PST
by
gridlock
(All we are saying, Is give war a chance....)
To: chance33_98
Contrails from the space shuttle Columbia are seen in this image from video taken from an army helicopter and released
by the U.S. military, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2003. Two Dutch military pilots training on an Apache helicopter at Fort Hood, Texas,
shot the video of the shuttle breaking up en route to its scheduled landing on Feb. 1. (AP Photo/APTN)
To: michigander
Despite the pictures' caption, those are NOT "contrails".
To: gridlock
Tin foil alert! Tin foil alert! What is the range of a Dutch Hellfire missile?
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posted on
02/14/2003 6:43:17 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Paranoia is when you realize that tin foil hats just focus the mind control beams.)
To: chance33_98
We have Dutch Air Force pilots flying Apaches at Fort Hood? Who'd a thunk it?
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posted on
02/14/2003 6:47:00 AM PST
by
leadpenny
To: gridlock
Your tin foil seems to have shorted out! Chill until you have the facts.
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posted on
02/14/2003 7:15:01 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(Pray)
To: leadpenny
We have Dutch Air Force pilots flying Apaches at Fort Hood? Who'd a thunk it?
I heard they were BLACK Apaches too. Rumor is the Dutch have been assigned Texas to control when the UN takes over.
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posted on
02/14/2003 7:32:16 AM PST
by
John H K
To: John H K
LOL. I have little doubt that we have pilots from one of our staunchest allies training in the US. It just 'shows to go ya' how much a person can learn here on FR.
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posted on
02/14/2003 7:38:59 AM PST
by
leadpenny
To: OldFriend
Sorry, I forgot the < /sarc > tag.
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posted on
02/14/2003 8:14:26 AM PST
by
gridlock
(All we are saying, Is give war a chance....)
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