(Archive) DHL Airbus hit by a rocket over Baghdad in 2003

[madflyer26]

I was sent an e-mail from a former colleague working in Iraq showing an DHL Airbus that had been hit with a rocket over Baghdad and the crew managing to make it back to the ground with now hydraulics. The photos and transcript is in power-point format and I don't know how to up-load onto this site. Help would be appreciated as this is quite remarkable considering the damage to the airframe.

Regards

MF

[Newforest2]

No hurry for the photos, this should be in the historic section, it happened in 2003. Search is your friend. Plane was for sale and is probably still there.

[Airbubba]

Yep, they had a 'journalist' from the Paris Matchbook egging them on 'cause he thought they were shooting down an 'American' plane:

With a Strella on one’s shoulders it’s believed to be hard to distinguish a Boeing 747 from an American military plane. The seeker head howls: "Fire! and at 9:18am the first missile hits the target's left wing. The second, five seconds later, misses its target. The leader jumps for joy like a child and lifts up his hands to the sky: "Allah O Akbar! Allah O Akbar!" Then he immediately gives the order to breakdown the weapons and each car starts off in a cloud of dust, each one in a different direction. We will discover later from the press-releases that the commando group had fired upon a DHL Airbus... A civil target!

ParisMatch on DHL A300 (2 of 9) (http://www.iasa-intl.com/folders/belfast/241103/6crims.html)