Originally Posted by
sprite1
Terrible loss. Poor crew. RIP.
Kind of puts that 727 orbit at Mogadishu in a different light.
I agree with your sentiments. Having spent best part of 3 years flying in and out of Mogadishu, it’s no place for complacency or the faint hearted, the strips inland even more so.
The crews flying those missions are highly skilled and aware of the risks.
Sad day.
Is an RPG hit on such a small moving target at 2300 feet without guidance really possible? It seems a somewhat unlikely explanation, I always presumed that the RPG was a close in weapon