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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (231391)5/3/2005 7:55:18 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1573122
 
Ted from your link

"A spokesman said there was no indication of hostile fire. The planes were said to be flying at high altitude, too high to be shot down."

From other sources -

"In Washington, defense officials said they suspected the two fighters collided in mid-air at 30,000 feet (9,144 metres), but no final conclusion had been reached...

...'We have not found the second pilot," a military spokesman said in Baghdad. "The planes were flying too high to be shot down.'"

alertnet.org

"A military spokesman said there were no indications the planes had come down under hostile fire. It was not clear if they might have collided during a heavy sand and lightning storm that hit central Iraq around the time they went missing."

reuters.com
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