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From: emory!Dixie.Com!stan@gatech.edu (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: AC-130 STATUS
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.002835.22172@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 18 Mar 91 00:28:35 GMT
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From: emory!Dixie.Com!stan@gatech.edu (Stan Brown)

pierce@bcstec.boeing.com (Greg Pierce) writes:



>From: pierce@bcstec.boeing.com (Greg Pierce)

>On Feb 1, 1991 it was reported that a AC-130 was
>shot down in Kuwait with a crew of 14 onboard.
>Does anyone have more information on the status
>of the crew?  After it went down there was no news
>about it, which would lead me to belive it was on
>a Special Ops mission.

	As I recall, that was the day that the Pentagon decided to start 
	enforcing the "ground rule" of no news on downed aircraft whil 
	active search & rescue was in progress.

	Seems like I heard about 2-3 days later that all personel on this
	aircraft were lost.

	BTW what would a Spec' Op's force be doing on an AC-130 wgich is
	th gun platform version.  I think this is just the normal contigent
	for this aricraft counting gun servers etc.


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