[Milsurplus] Old heavies as flit guns

[mikea]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 02:16:53AM +0000, D C Macdonald wrote:
> Not sure exactly when it happened because the
> death of the Pope has obscured almost everything
> else, but we lost a C-130 in Albania a few days ago.
> Nine crew all dead.  The Electronic Warfare Officer
> had recently graduated from that school and was
> a friend and student of my son-in-law at Randolph AFB.

Yes; I had seen that. Bad deal all the way around. 

They _do_ fall out of the sky from time to time, even under the best 
of circumstances. 

It's hard. 

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin