"ned" wrote in message ...



On November 27, 2004, transport flight Blackwater 61, a
turboprop CASA 212-CC, crashed in the mountains of
Afghanistan. The plane was operated by Presidential Airways,
a subsidiary of the private security company Blackwater,
also operating as Blackwater Aviation under contract for the
United States Department of Defense. The crew had left their
regular flight route for "fun" to fly through a canyon, at
the end of which they crashed into a rock wall. The words of
the pilots reveal in stunning detail the cynicism of a war
between audacity and folly, where men reach the edge of reason.

Sad.

Sounds like a real honest-to-goodness Darwin Award case.

R.I.P.
--
Jim in NC