Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The story folded, The German Military Airbus was on a scheduled routine flight to Pensacola (the Luftwaffe has a training unit there) and had problems explaining that they had 10 tonnes of unscheduled cargo (one man ration packs) on board, authorities being what they are, this had to be cleared before allowing it to be unloaded. As usually happens in military circles, this wasn't exactly a quick and simple task - the impatient Germans unloaded it themselves, without being able to produce the required paperwork. The plane should have been flying empty, then somebody had the bright idea of filling it with emergency rations and , as we all know bright ideas and initiative don't go down well in the forces anywhere, and nobody had taken the time to fill out the forms in triplicate, so...................... A spokesman of the German forces got the story wrong and a reporter jumped the gun with what he thought was a scoop. At least this is the latest version in the German media (state TV and radio), a second plane is now on its way with the next official 10 tonnes of rations. Or is this only a cover-up? Douglas Jeff Sumner wrote: > Seconded. > > If there's a story here, there's NOT enough detail about which to > get emotional. > > > On Sep 4, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Summicron1@aol.com wrote: > >> this doesn't pass the smell test -- ask yourself, would German >> pilots take >> off with 10 tons of stuff on a flight across the atlantic without >> knowing ahead >> of time where they were going, with landing permissions already in >> place and a >> recipient lined up? >> >> cripes, people will believe anything if it's sent out by email. $5 >> will get >> you an M7 this is all over the web in two days flat, however. >> >> ctrentelman >> In a message dated 9/4/05 12:04:22 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org >> writes: >> >> >> >>> >>> >>>> Reported a few minutes ago on German radio : >>>> How much truth there is in the report I don't know, it's only >>>> minutes old. >>>> >>>> A german military transport aircraft with 10 tons of cargo for >>>> relief in the hurricane Katrina disaster area was refused >>>> landing permission by the US authorities, quoted as having said "Our >>>> country is perfectly capable of looking after itself" >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >