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To: TimF who wrote (10687)	4/6/2001 8:44:16 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 82486

We weren't suggesting they automatically die. They could have bailed out and waited for rescue from the air -- presumably the plane has life rafts and parachutes -- most military planes do. Or they could have tried to bring it down on the water. Or tried for some other landing place -- I don't know how far they were from other airports. Granted it was an emergency, but they should be trained to deal in emergencies. Lots of planes in WWII came home "on a wing and a prayer." The point is, that when you're in charge of highly classified and secret technology, you don't take it and land it in the air base of a foreign and presumed hostile military power, especially a base particularly well equipped to reverse engineer it. This represents the investment of billions of dollars of highly classified technology which we basically handed to the Chinese in exchange for one plane and one pilot. They are licking their chops over the great deal they got.

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