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Caribbean-Latin America
Air France stories
2009-06-04
From Reuters at the link, and from the New York Post here. Looks like the weather did it and not a bomb.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  I once heard an old pilot (My uncle) call C-130s "The heavy duty trucks of the air, go anywhere, haul anything, damn good airplanes".
Posted by: Mstrmech   2009-06-04 15:03  

#3  ...how old are those airframes?

Old!!!
Posted by: Zorba   2009-06-04 12:23  

#2  C-130's a tough. Plastic airplanes belong in cereal boxes. Very, very sad.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-06-04 09:12  

#1  If the weather did it, it does not give one a lot of confidence in flying on an Airbus, does it? Commercial aircraft try to avoid thunderstorms but still fly through them all the time. Our Hurricane Hunters fly C-130s (how old are those airframes?) into the hearts of the worst hurricanes.
Posted by: Glenmore   2009-06-04 09:05  

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