Hansen: Offutt pilots fly old, dangerous airplanes — and not just because of money
Men and women stationed at Offutt Air Force Base fly some of the country’s most important spy missions in 60-year-old planes that are often too busted to take off.
When they actually get into the sky, these crews’ key missions — like tracking enemies in war zones, watching Russia and sniffing out potential nuclear blasts — are often aborted when the giant plane breaks down in mid-air.
These spy planes are 100 times more likely than a commercial airliner to land early because of mechanical failure.
That sounds incredibly dangerous. It sounds unnecessarily risky.
To Lisa Kort-Butler, it sounds ... familiar.
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