Why Is The Greek Air Force So Much Better Than Our Own?
ATHENS (Reuters) - A Cypriot airliner carrying 121 people crashed north of Athens on Sunday after losing contact with air traffic control minutes before it went down.So, the story clearly says the jets caught up to the doomed jet WITHIN MINUTES of loss of contact.
A Greek police spokeswoman said there were no immediate reports of survivors.
Two Greek F-16 fighter jets were scrambled after the Helios Airways jet, en route from Larnaca in Cyprus to Prague via Athens, lost contact with the control tower at Athens international airport.
One of the F-16 pilots reported that he could not see the captain in the cockpit and his co-pilot appeared to be slumped in his seat, a Defense Ministry official told Reuters.
Amnazing! I'm sure it was pure luck! Becuase we know from 9/11, that interceptors can never catch up to a commercial jet after losing contact with air traffic control that quickly. Right?
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posted by spooked at 10:41 PM
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"Why Is The Greek Air Force So Much Better Than Our Own?"
Um...I'll tell ya why:
...because they weren't stood-down.
...because they weren't diverted and diluted by drills & war games intentionally designed & executed to neutralize their effectivness.
...you know the rest. ;-)
Because they did not turn off their transponder making it look like many other blips on the radar?
just so you know...turning off a transponder does NOT make the plane invisible. it is still able to be tracked by a number of different ways. it would have virtually NO EFFECT on the ability of fighter planes to be able to intercept it.
when a commericial airliner turns its transponder off, that is INSTANTLY recognized, and considered that something is EXTREMELY wrong on that particular flight...meaning it is most likely hijacked. Payne Stewart's (sp?) flight in 1999 NEVER turned its transponder off, yet F-16's were on its ass within 20 minutes. That shows you that on 9-11, FOUR PLANES, ALL turning off their transponder should've sent shit-fits through our national defense infastructure, and elicited a fighter response AT LEAST AS FAST AS THAT OF A PRO-GOLFER'S PLANE THAT WAS OFF-COURSE, AND HAD ITS TRANSPONDER STILL ON!! Yet on 9-11...ALL FOUR PLANES were allowed to wander around the skies for almost AN HOUR....WITHOUT ONE FIGHTER PLANE being able to reach it. You figure out why that was...
There were OVER 60 INTERCEPTIONS PER YEAR, EVERY YEAR, of planes that went even SLIGHTLY off course in the several years before 9/11/2001...and those planes NEVER EVEN TURNED OFF THIER TRANSPONDER!! yet NOT ONE INTERCEPTION WAS MADE ON 9/11/2001...any guess as to why that was?? ;-)
WHAT ELSE BUT stand-down, or distraction via war-games & drills could explain that??!
Were not all the 60 interceptions made on planes that were coming into the US?
Anyway, I don't think you misunderstood what I said. My fault. It was ambiguous. I meant to say:
Perhaps we could not find our planes because the transponder was turned off, making the hijacked planes appear like any other blip on the screen that was not an airplane (transponders dont just identify aircraft, they amplify the radar signiture.) Not every flying object has a transponder. The Greek plane did not turn off their transponder. The plane is easily identified from the ground, and easily located.
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