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More photos, little information from C-17 crash at Bagram

This a follow up on this incident… My earlier article regarding a string of C-17 mishaps and runway overshoots at Bagram has drawn quite a bit of traffic lately, and no small number of comments criticizing my attempt at analysis.  While looking around for a...

Another C-17 incident at Bagram

Last week a US Air Force C-17 transport plane (tail #96-0002) made a dazzling nighttime “wheels up” belly landing at Bagram Air Base in Aghanistan sending sparks and flames higher than the tailplane (which on the C-17 is five stories high).  The crash led...

Selling to Saddam..

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/investing/articles/0,15114,438836,00.html FIRST: MILITARY SUPPLIES Who Sold What to Iraq? The U.S. aims to hunt down companies that supplied Saddam. FORTUNE Sunday, March 30, 2003 By Nelson D. Schwartz When the first wave of American...

Did the Sept. 11th Hijackers Really Use Plastic Knives?

Interesting discussion from a not-very-reliable source. The question of whether 60 passengers could be subdued by four men with plastic knives and box-cutters for more than two minutes does linger doubtfully in my mind.. -Ian. —-...

Conspiracy Theories..

Spot the Boeing. Some French guys find it hard to believe that a 100-ton 757 slamming into the Pentagon caused as little damage as it did on September 11th. http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/erreurs_en.htm …use Google to translate it if you need...