Venezuelan Military Plane crashes, killing all 25 aboard.

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/08/22/venezuela.crash.reut/index.html

edit: thx for the link guys

[Cassandra]

1. Any clue who was on board?

Anyone politically important?

[bemildred]

2. CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/08/22/venezuela.crash.reut/index.html

[VolcanoJen]

3. CNN Link here....

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/08/22/venezuela.crash.reut/

Excerpt:

Venezuela plane crash kills 25

A Venezuelan air force plane carrying three crew members and 22 passengers has crashed in bad weather in central Venezuela, killing all on board, an aviation official said Sunday.

Rescue workers located the wreckage of the twin-prop Short C-23 Sherpa near Mariara, in the foothills of mountains in Carabobo state, west of Caracas, and no survivors were reported, a spokesman for Venezuela's Civil Aviation Search and Rescue Center said.

Air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane Saturday afternoon when it was returning from the Caribbean island of La Orchila, off Venezuela's northern coast.

"We're assuming the accident happened in bad weather," the civil aviation spokesman told Reuters.

The passengers were a mixture of military personnel and civilians, including five children, who had been on a "recreational trip" to Orchila island, the spokesman said.

[bemildred]

4. Beetcha.

:-)

[seventhson]

5. Another EMP weapon success?

if there were important folks on board this was probably an assassination


EMP I'd guess.

Engines died and the plane just went down with no power. That'd be the symptoms if it was EMP.

Waiting for results tro see if it is consistent.

[SpiralHawk]

6. There is nothing to see here

You are hereby Officially Notified by BushCo that there is nothing to see here.

So just shut up, and go away. You will be notified of any breakthroughs in the Scott Peterson trial.


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