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From: mbk@netcom.com (Miles Kehoe)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: P-3 Orion MidAir
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Date: 6 Apr 91 06:29:56 GMT
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From: mbk@netcom.com (Miles Kehoe)


>Due to mailer screwups, my request for P-3 Orion MidAir information had
>the wrong return address. Since the moderator had asked that all responses
>be sent directly to me, please send responses to my questions on
>that incident and previous incidents of P-3 crashes to:
>  asuvax.eas.asu.edu!anasaz!micquis!john. 

I heard an interesting story the day before the recent mid-air from a friend
that he had recently noticed 'black' p-3s coming in and out of Moffett
Naval Air Station where the 2 aircraft involved in the mid-air were
based.

He added (the day before the crash) that "black p-3s are specially
equipped for sub tracking, with more electronics than the normal
p-3" and that they send the black p-3s in when they have a hard
siting on a sub they really want to track.

Isn't it interesting that a day after several of these 'black' p-3s
were flying around that 2 of them should hit out in the middle of the
ocean.... of course, they might have been 'changing posts' as the
news reported... but then again... my first reaction was "How could two
of those planes be so unlucky as to be in the same time and place 
over such a big ocean?".. unless of course there was something
really interesting near them... 

AND, of course, a helicopter just happened to be passing by 60 miles offshore
to witness the explosion.... hm..

(Food for thought..?)