A DHL plane has gone down in Baghdad. First reports indicate either system failure or hit by 2 SAMS. Crew managed to land and was taken out by Medivac. More info when I get it.
Yesterday, I think a charter flight got hit by a SAM and the wing caught fire,
and they were still able to land
DHL Plane down in Iraq:
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DHL Plane down in Iraq:
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Oh wait, this is the same one;
International express courier firm DHL confirmed that all of its staff were unhurt after what the US military said was a SA-7 surface-to-air missile strike on its Airbus A-300 aircraft.
Witnesses told AFP that they saw the plane's left wing ablaze before the plane made an emergency return to Baghdad airport, which has remained shut to scheduled civilian flights ever since the US-led spring invasion because of the persistent missile threat from anti-coalition insurgents.
International express courier firm DHL confirmed that all of its staff were unhurt after what the US military said was a SA-7 surface-to-air missile strike on its Airbus A-300 aircraft.
Witnesses told AFP that they saw the plane's left wing ablaze before the plane made an emergency return to Baghdad airport, which has remained shut to scheduled civilian flights ever since the US-led spring invasion because of the persistent missile threat from anti-coalition insurgents.
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
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DHL also canelled all flights to Baghdad as a result of it.
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It was only a matter of time before SA-7s start finding their mark- statistics and all that.
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Curious, however, that a SA-7 hit on the outboard wing panel when they're so primitively heatseeking. I'd have expected an engine hit.
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