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Luca Morandini wrote:
Ogden Johnson III wrote: Luca Morandini wrote: shouldn't he set the autopilot on and bail out himself (after allowing for the rest of the crew to bail out safely, of course) ? Same reason as with the ditching; whatever the aircrew did, there was no guarantee that the aircraft, wherever it crashed, would be unrecoverable. Hmmm... I beg to differ, it would have been MUCH easier for the US Navy to recover/destroy sensitive material than for the Chinese one to do so. Wouldn't that depend on exactly where the ditched/autopiloted EP-3E ended up? [Wondering at Luca's assumption in the previous post that the EP-3E's autopilot would have been any better in handling a severely damaged aircraft than the pilot himself did.] It could very well have ended up deep inside PRC territorial waters, or even on land within the PRC. Kinda hard for the USN to beat the PLA to the wreck in that case. ;- Anyway, may I conclude that regulations prescribe sensitive material to be destroyed but NOT at the cost of destroying the entire aircraft or putting the crew in danger ? Feel free. I wouldn't, but you certainly can. Regulations will prescribe different things *for* different things. I trust the US learned its lesson from the Pueblo, and that the EP-3E did not carry anything onboard that required destruction of the aircraft, even at the cost of the death of the entire crew, to prevent it from falling into "hostile" hands. There may be secrets that require such extreme protection, but one doesn't put them on an unarmed or under-armed ship or aircraft that you send to snoop around exactly the place you want to protect the secret from. OJ III |
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