Rumors of Coups

Sep 06, 2007 07:08

Nuclear weapons are secured with electronic and physical locks that make it impossible to unintentionally detonate, so when the USAF makes another silly story to explain an event, it merits speculation as to the reason.

The most common speculation is that another 9-11 stand-down is being effected. But the 9-14 stand-down is different. "All flights of fighters and bombers in the United States will be halted on September 14 to allow for a review of procedures." It was not the aircraft or pilots that made the mistake.

Another possibility is the obvious one: they cannot trust either the aircrews or ground crews with weapons of any kind. Trust as in questions about loyalty, which would be appropriate if the government refuses to comply with the constitution and then expected men sworn to defend the constitution to assist them. Perhaps some assistance was going to be rendered.

Recall this previous ridiculous USAF story: "I recently saw on the Discovery Channel here a documentary on a somewhat mysterious A-10 crash a few years ago, where it seemed that the pilot lost it and went on a bit of personal low level joyflight, in the process losing bombs from his aircraft (never found according to the documentary) and sadly crashing a short time later."

"The documentary concerned the case of Captain Craig Button, an A-10 pilot who disappeared on a training mission in June 1997. Initially, it was thought that button had become incapacitated, but it was later determined that he'd deliberately flown off course from a point in central Arizona, northeast to Colorado, eventually crashing into Gold Dust peak, near Aspen, CO.

It's never really been determined why he flew off course, or why he circled a few times near the peak before impacting into the terrain. There was speculation of some personal problems that he'd been dealing with, and that he 'just snapped'. His plane was missing for over 2 weeks before the crash site was found, in the snow at @the 14,000' elevation point. There's also the mystery of the 4 500lb Mk-82 bombs that he was carrying. They weren't anywhere at the crash site"

They always knew where the pilot was, but they claimed that they did not know where he crashed. Perhaps not, but they knew where they shot him down.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/05/loose.nukes/index.html
http://www.airdisaster.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-54272.html