On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:45:04 GMT, wrote:

In rec.aviation.piloting Mr.Smartypants wrote:
On Feb 21, 1:39?pm, "gatt" wrote:
?"WASHINGTON (AP) - A helicopter carrying three senior U.S. senators has
made an emergency landing in Afghanistan.
Sens. John Kerry, Joseph Biden and Chuck Hagel were aboard the aircraft.,
according to Jon Summers, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The lawmakers are on a trip this week that includes stops in India, Turkey
and Pakistan.

Kerry and Biden are Democrats from Massachusetts and Delaware, respectively,
and the Republican Hagel is from Nebraska. "

WTF?! ?Is this something that needs to be reported before they're secured
and recovered?

-c

The "emergency" landing was probably at an alternate airport/base.

You can bet those three tit-suckers wouldn't be anywhere near any
actual danger.

They landed in a field in the mountains because of a snow storm and
were transported the rest of the way by ground vehicles.

While waiting for pickup, the troops formed a perimeter and a fighter
flew air cover as would be expected for such a situation.

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Please explain to me how a fighter could fly air cover in Wx so bad
that a chopper had to land?

Also Fighters fly in at lest a element not singly.

Sounds like some press had a dead line to make and not time to get
facts straight.

Or maybe the fighter was a sim mission, eh ! Mx?


Big John