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Topic History of: Norfolk helicopter crash
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Foz |
Qué? wrote:
Have you ever seen geese fly at night?
Why was a U.S. search and rescue helicopter flying around the Norfolk coast fully armed?
A contact at RAF Lakenheath says it's all gone quiet, nobody saying anything.
Yes - sounds like normal US Military behaviour. They used to think it was okay during the Cold War to secretly fly bombing exercises over UK cities carrying 15MT hydrogen bombs with rudimentary safety equipment, but forbade similar exercises over US soil!! Dozens of accidents happened (crashes, accidental bomb releases on the tarmac etc.) and only by chance the primary TNT explosives (when they did explode) didn't trigger a full scale thermonuclear reaction. The Schossler book is very interesting - the world was literally more at risk from US accidental nuclear disaster than from the Russians. |
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Fair Justice (as always) |
"The US government has consistently tried to withhold information from the American people in order to prevent questions being asked about our nuclear weapons policy," he said. "We were told there was no possibility of these weapons accidentally detonating, yet here's one that very nearly did."
In July 1956, a plane crashed in Suffolk, nearly detonating an atomic bomb. In January 1987, an RAF truck carrying hydrogen bombs skidded off a road in Wiltshire. Other near-misses remain top secret. Who is really at risk from Britain's nuclear weapons?
www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/14/nu...nt-waiting-to-happen |
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Mr Reason |
Don't forget there were two of them (aircraft), one landed to try help the other..........the Norfolk coast has a range call RAF Holbeach (check Wiki) ...........can't say it was destination, but it is a live firing range, not sure if its used at night, but has certainly been used by Pave Hawk before..........I would have thought an operational Recon / Search unit would need night time flying training on a regular basis to keep operational.
I can't see the 'unusual' in this , especially when Norfolk and the USA are involved  |
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Qué? |
Have you ever seen geese fly at night?
Why was a U.S. search and rescue helicopter flying around the Norfolk coast fully armed?
A contact at RAF Lakenheath says it's all gone quiet, nobody saying anything. |
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