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- From: klassen@sol.UVic.CA (Melvin Klassen)
- Subject: Re: Almost botched drug bust?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.010334.12101@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. CANADA
- References: <1992Nov19.170914.11341@julian.uwo.ca>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 01:03:34 GMT
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- In article <@> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
- >Something the CBC isin't [sic] 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.
- >I heard early reports that the 4 guys on the cargo plane were
- >caught because of suspicious residents in the area. If this is the
- >case, I don't think the authorities will elaborate... :)
-
- What did you expect? That the F-18s would blast it out of the sky,
- like that misrouted commercial airplane which was destroyed ten years ago?
- (I see that Boris Yeltsin handed over the "black-box" from that airplane
- earlier this week.) Just following it, and ordering it to land, using both
- radio and hand-signals, is the truly-Canadian way of doing things!
-