Ilyushin Freighter crashed into Lake Victoria
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I did not see GB on TV expressing distain for VB.
BTW John Miller has chosen to PM me rather than reply in the thread, I wonder why? So far no info as to where he qualified as a Journalist.
BTW John Miller has chosen to PM me rather than reply in the thread, I wonder why? So far no info as to where he qualified as a Journalist.
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Africanut, you can prove that? Records show one week ago aircraft was away on flight. Perhaps you are getting the aircraft at EBB confused.
How is Yuri Siderov doing lately, you must surely work for him or be his friend - send him best regards. Hope you get to fly again real soon.
But from your previous posts it would appear if you are a wannabe aviator or cargo agent dredging the outside of the terminal begging for cargo. Obviously you have insights and access to the aircraft airside EBB, thats why you can have so much to say. Specialist?
How many S9 IL-76 were standing at EBB last wek, or whenever you made these observations, and what are/were their registrations?
Come on mr Specialist, show us you know everything, ok, maybe perhaps, just something!
How is Yuri Siderov doing lately, you must surely work for him or be his friend - send him best regards. Hope you get to fly again real soon.
But from your previous posts it would appear if you are a wannabe aviator or cargo agent dredging the outside of the terminal begging for cargo. Obviously you have insights and access to the aircraft airside EBB, thats why you can have so much to say. Specialist?
How many S9 IL-76 were standing at EBB last wek, or whenever you made these observations, and what are/were their registrations?
Come on mr Specialist, show us you know everything, ok, maybe perhaps, just something!
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Interview with Viktor Bout on Channel 4 (UK independent TV channel) this evening, in which they interviewed him (with some obvious difficulty) in his Thai prison. He stated that he did not always know what the aircraft he was operating were doing.
http://http://www.channel4.com/news/
http://http://www.channel4.com/news/
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Originally Posted by 172Driver
You seem to know very little about the center of lift on some Russian designs. Quite a few ILs and Antonovs climb away in a nose DOWN attitude.
! Centre of lift has nothing to do with fuse angle, it's zero-lift incidence setting of the wing viz the fuse that sets that, usually for cruise-drag reduction, though sometimes for simple landing take-off geometry reasons.
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Entebbe has been the center for a large humanitarian fleet for several years now ever since Kenya wanted to tax UN food aid and various other things heading into Congo.
And as for this aircraft it was apparently flying supplies to Uganden peace keepers in Somalia.
And as for this aircraft it was apparently flying supplies to Uganden peace keepers in Somalia.
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As often seems to happen, this thread seems to have wandered away from the points at issue.
Why was an aircraft (which is almost certainly not airworthy) allowed to operate a charter flight on behalf of the UN/US government/whoever and kill 4 crew and 7 passengers (who almost certainly should not have been allowed on board) by crashing in as yet unexplained circumstances.
There will not be any proper investigation, certainly no report from the Sao Tome AAIB and there will be many more repeats of these appalling crashes.
One can only hope that the lawyers acting for the bereaved families may discover some of the facts and the powers that be in Rome and Washington may one day properly enforce their own rules on which carriers they use.
Why was an aircraft (which is almost certainly not airworthy) allowed to operate a charter flight on behalf of the UN/US government/whoever and kill 4 crew and 7 passengers (who almost certainly should not have been allowed on board) by crashing in as yet unexplained circumstances.
There will not be any proper investigation, certainly no report from the Sao Tome AAIB and there will be many more repeats of these appalling crashes.
One can only hope that the lawyers acting for the bereaved families may discover some of the facts and the powers that be in Rome and Washington may one day properly enforce their own rules on which carriers they use.
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yup.....sounds ridiculous but......for real there were water bottles floating at the crash site.....maybe the cargo we are thinking about sunk......
really interesting story on the african aviation thread...........mention of al-shabaab!!!
......really interesting story on the african aviation thread...........mention of al-shabaab!!!
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From Military Photo's. Net
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ENTEBBE, Uganda - Members of U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 8 (EODMU 8) receive a briefing on the Ilyushin 76 transport plane March 24, 2009, which is the same model as the one which crashed into Lake Victoria in Africa March 9. EODMU 8 is part of a search and recovery operation being conducted by the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) and the government of Uganda. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Cory Drake)
ENTEBBE, Uganda - Members of U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 8 (EODMU 8) receive a briefing on the Ilyushin 76 transport plane March 24, 2009, which is the same model as the one which crashed into Lake Victoria in Africa March 9. EODMU 8 is part of a search and recovery operation being conducted by the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) and the government of Uganda. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Cory Drake)
I doubt that these guy's have been brought in to look for sunken tents and bottled water!
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