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To: Taro who wrote (377479)	4/10/2008 3:38:17 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1583362

"Helicopters were sent out over the desert without air filters; the sand and dust soon ruined their engines" Sounds good. Except for the minor fact that none of the helicopters experienced engine failure. One had a rotor failure, one turned back because they got lost. And the last one had a failure in the hydraulics system. "Someone had removed some of the sand filters from the helicopters, and that is what led to their crash when, without filters, the engines clogged up." Sounds good. Except the only one that crashed was when it hit a C130. And that wasn't until after the mission was scrubbed. You really need to stay away from conspiracy stuff. It might be a fun read, but they are usually long on wishful thinking and short on facts. Again, the problem with the sand and dust isn't that it clogs the engines, hard to imagine how that could happen, but that it erodes the turbines and shortens their operational life. For that particular mission, I am sure that was considered to be acceptable.