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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (10687)	4/6/2001 8:44:16 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.

To: TimF who wrote (10687)	4/7/2001 12:01:36 AM
From: zonkie	Respond to of 82486

>>>>24 additional Americans being killed then I might agree with the point (by Zonkie was it?)>>>> I didn't say anything about the servicemen dying. What I had in mind when I said I thought they would have had orders to ditch was that they would be able to parachute out. On planes like this I would also think they would have inflatable life rafts on the plane. If the plane was damaged so badly that it was impossible for it to fly back where it started from this seems less dangerous than landing in China. I realize there are many things I don't know about the mission but if it was me I would have rather taken my chances in the water than take a chance of going to a prison in China.