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To: LindyBill who wrote (4349)	12/23/2002 6:51:42 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 6901

Hi LindyBill; Re the "... two pilots are getting railroaded ..." I agree. There is something about weapons that makes everyone near them convinced that they are (1) aiming directly at them, and (2) if fired, just barely missed them. I've seen this in perfectly sane, totally undrugged individuals in friendly situations. The tendency must be far more acute when flying an aircraft over enemy territory. The whole design and rules of a shooting range is so as to reduce this all too human tendency. It's also not all that easy to hear orders coming in when you feel that your life is in danger and you're trying to maintain control of an exquisitely complicated piece of machinery. Here's another story on it: Did amphetamines play a role in friendly fire attack on Canadians? Brian Stewart, CBC TV, December 20, 2002 ... SORENSEN: Schmidt soon discovered how wrong he'd been. Now his legal team is questioning whether amphetamines played a part in the deaths of four Canadians, a stimulant the military routinely gives to pilots to give them alert on long flights, for example, over Afghanistan. REAR-ADMIRAL EUGENE CARROLL - RETIRED (Former US Navy Pilot): It's a stimulant and heightens all your senses really. You get more alert. You get edgy. SORENSEN: Eugene Carroll says it's nothing new. He's a former US Navy pilot who was given pills, he says, to juice him up for long flights. ... globalsecurity.org -- Carl