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- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!wildcan!sq!donald
- From: donald@sq.sq.com (Donald Teed)
- Subject: Re: Almost botched drug bust?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.221113.9662@sq.sq.com>
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
- References: <1992Nov19.170914.11341@julian.uwo.ca>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 22:11:13 GMT
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- wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
-
- >Something the CBC isin't elaborating on is how that drug plane (the
- >one that landed in Casey PQ) how they tracked it there after the
- >fighter planes had to return after they ran out of gas.
-
- >In typical stupid gov't ineptitude, they send out fighter planes
- >to "do something" with a slow long range cargo plane. I mean,
- >if they're not going to shoot it down, send up a prop-driven long
- >range plane to follow the damn plane until it lands or crashes.
-
- Not only were they F-18's, but they were sent from Goose Bay Labrador,
- some 800 air miles north and east of Montreal. They could have done
- better with a Search and Rescue plane from Charlottetown, P.E.I.
- The Toronto Star labelled the effort a "high tech chase" but then
- included the information that the F-18's had to land in N.B.
- Then six helicopters were sent to look at all of the known airfields
- in Quebec in the appropriate areas. I think the U.S. system was
- largely the means by which this airplane was singled out and followed
- to Canada. Officials here must have been embarassed into launching
- whatever military style equipment we had to "keep up with the Jones".
- I wondered whether they thought the next step would be to fire a
- cannon shot in front of the airplane. I wonder if they had, could
- the falling shot have injured someone in Plaster Rock, N.B.?
-
- --Donald Teed
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-