Visitors flying to Baghdad must make quick descent (in F-28)
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On 28-03-04 an AN12 out of UAE was also hit by a missile at 8000ft on departure from Baghdad, aircraft built like a brick outhouse landed safley, with flap and aileron damage.
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Heard of that AN12 when I was flying there. At the time the US was denying it and we were told no civil aircraft got hit since the A300. Where did you get the info?
Never did enjoy flying into ORBI, preferred ORBD and ORBM, much easier to get into and out of.
Heard of that AN12 when I was flying there. At the time the US was denying it and we were told no civil aircraft got hit since the A300. Where did you get the info?
Never did enjoy flying into ORBI, preferred ORBD and ORBM, much easier to get into and out of.
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A mate of mine was running the new currency into Baghdad in a beaten up B707 earlier this year and had a bullet come through the DV window one day. Par for the course apparently so yeah, I would say the measures taken by the royal flight are indeed a necessary precaution. Wear a tin hat too. 
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He's supposedly using EX- reg now
that must be Phoenix out of Sharjah. The company has some ex-Santa-Cruz IL18's of the good old days when Victor Bout was active in Africa (Angola, Sierra Leone, Liberia etc). Good business to supply warlords like Sawimbi, Taylor, Mullah Omar, Bush, Blair. etc...
that must be Phoenix out of Sharjah. The company has some ex-Santa-Cruz IL18's of the good old days when Victor Bout was active in Africa (Angola, Sierra Leone, Liberia etc). Good business to supply warlords like Sawimbi, Taylor, Mullah Omar, Bush, Blair. etc...
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Waning days of Vietnam, I remember being briefed 20K 20DME, 10K,10 DME final for Saigon, in C141A. We did it, all sh*t hanging (including spoilers, 'illegal' with flaps). Sounds all so familiar, Johnson-Bush, both stupid failures; though Bush, having lived through Vietnam, exceeds all bounds of stupidity.
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AN12 was EK reg( Armenia), operating out of Sharjah UAE on regular freight contract flight, inspected a/c myself ! 
Any other civil aircraft shot at since the A300?
Any other info on this AN12?
Any other civil aircraft shot at since the A300?
Any other info on this AN12?
