So who thinks we'll get the plane back?

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Posted: 4/13/2001 12:30:55 PM EDT

Or do all our planes are belong to them?

Posted: 4/13/2001 12:44:17 PM EDT

[#1]

They will do the "Kung Po Shuffle" for awhile but we will get it back. They're just not "done" with it yet...

Posted: 4/13/2001 12:46:34 PM EDT

[#2]

EXACTLY!!!!

Posted: 4/13/2001 12:48:18 PM EDT

[#3]

Highly unlikely.....one report said the crew destroyed a lot of the recorded info before landing....thing is...we will be (are) flying missions right back there....so that`s probably more of a concern, that the incident could have a follow up contact of aircraft...the fighter pilots will be a little less agressive i would think...unless they`re stupid...time will tell.....[rocket]

Posted: 4/13/2001 12:52:22 PM EDT

[#4]

Maybe they'll send it back one piece at a time.

Didn't the US do that with a Soviet plane during the Cold War that the Soviets damanded back? I think some pilot defected, but the Soviet (rightly) claimed that the plane was still their property.

Posted: 4/13/2001 12:55:40 PM EDT

[#5]

In the twenty minutes before landing the crew probably managed to do 20-30 million dollars worth of damage destroying all crypto and communications equipment, all data and processing equipment. Boards would have had their processing chips smashed with hammers then placed in wieghted bags for jetison off into deep water. Hard drives would have had their platters cracked and crushed then dumped too.

These actions would have been part of a check list that the crew has practiced and been tested on routinely.

Posted: 4/13/2001 1:10:54 PM EDT

[#6]

Satcong is right.

[red] ARR YOUL PRANE ALE BERONG TO US!!! [/red]

Posted: 4/13/2001 1:19:04 PM EDT

[#7]

[b] He was going the WONG WEI [/b]

Posted: 4/13/2001 1:22:38 PM EDT

[#8]

Yea, we did with the Russkies in the mid-70's. Vicktor Borenko (or something similar, it escapes me now) defected to Japan with a Mig 25. The first one we'd seen.

We sent the plane back to them in crates. [:D]

The Chinee will do the same here.

Posted: 4/13/2001 1:29:13 PM EDT

[#9]

They will send the plane back after they've examined and can reproduce every piece of equipment on board! US will pay the postage!

Or maybe it will become a tourist atraction like the USS Pueblo in North Korea!

I'd like to have it returned so I could place it on Hwy. 10 in AZ and turn it into the "WONG WEI" diner and Chinese restaurant!

DaMan

Posted: 4/13/2001 1:39:07 PM EDT

[#10]

I told my partner at work last night we ought to send over a Tomahawk or 5.

"What do you mean we killed 20 of your technicians?"

"What were YOUR technicians doing on OUR plane?"

[:D] [:D] [:D]

Posted: 4/13/2001 1:41:45 PM EDT

[#11]

We will get it back at some point. The Chinese would only be screwing themselves if they try to keep it.

Posted: 4/13/2001 4:22:13 PM EDT

[#12]

I'd like to see a sub launched cruise missle take it out at night right under their noses.
[X]

Posted: 4/13/2001 4:47:12 PM EDT

[#13]

It is only political fodder now. The plane is really of no use to us. Except we would have parts to repair the other planes in our inventory. That plane is not air worthy.

Posted: 4/13/2001 5:02:03 PM EDT

[#14]

"I'd like to see a sub launched cruise missle take it out at night right under their noses."

A Black Visitor in the Night would be better. Since the Chinks are so fond of harassing our aircraft, perhaps they might enjoy another demo of Stealth.

Posted: 4/13/2001 5:05:30 PM EDT

[#15]

Mall Ninja!!! It's the only way to be sure...

Posted: 4/13/2001 5:08:56 PM EDT

[#16]

I think we should blow the freakin thing off the runway and send them some Hefty bags to clean it up. Of course we won't do that, I think that to keep some damage control with our relations, we'll keep negotiating with the chinese until they give us our plane back. By then they'll have gotten all they could get from it anyway, if they haven't already.

Posted: 4/13/2001 5:26:35 PM EDT

[#17]

First of all i dont know why the pilot landed in china he should of ditched at sea instead of landing our plane on the enemys runway. secondly I dont know why we give these people most favored nation trading status, it seems to me we should give them "enemy" status.

Posted: 4/13/2001 5:41:21 PM EDT

[#18]

most likely but gutted & buged. It was like that when we got it.

Posted: 4/13/2001 5:42:17 PM EDT

[#19]

most likely but gutted & buged. they say "It was like that when we got it."

Posted: 4/13/2001 5:43:24 PM EDT

[#20]

most likely but gutted & buged. they would say "It was like that when we got it."

Posted: 4/13/2001 10:41:57 PM EDT

[#21]

for starters weather it was a recon plane or not i bet they had some explosives. they should have flew as far as possible into the ocean and used the explosives in mid air. problem would have been solved. oh yeah then at least they would have a real chance at being called heros.

Posted: 4/13/2001 10:50:13 PM EDT

[#22]

I gotta go with the destroying route. That plane is busted all to hell and back anyway (if the crew had time to/did their jobs correctly)
What harm would it do to pop it with a cruise missile? Kill a few PLA soldiers/technicians?

"Oops."

Those little Chi-Com f*ckers would only be getting what they deserved.

-Gloftoe
[beer]

Posted: 4/13/2001 10:53:46 PM EDT

[#23]

It belongs to us... I don't see why we should not get it back.

Posted: 4/13/2001 10:57:19 PM EDT

[#24]

How would you like to be the one given the job to fly it back?
[red]P.R.K.

Posted: 4/13/2001 10:57:24 PM EDT

[#25]

A nice cruise missle will solve the problem.

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