On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:28:59 GMT, john smith wrote:

An interesting program on PBS Tuedsay night about a young woman and her
boyfriend to flew from Copenhagen Dnemark to Kabul Afganistan in 2002.

I saw it and found it rather irritating. "The Americans" might shoot
her down! Of course she knew perfectly well that "the Americans" would
never shoot her down, which is why she dared enter Afghani airspace
from Iran in her Colt. Then she's talking to the AWACS plane (or so
she identifies it) but her interlocutor is clearly German, not
American! Perhaps a Dane can't tell the difference in accents, but the
British? producers of the program most certainly could have.

So what we get is a picture of this cheerful little country, cruelly
invaded by "the Americans". But could she have made the journey under
the Taliban? Would she have dared? Would the little girl she hopes to
introduce to flying have dared show her face at the airport? Would the
two (beautiful!) Afghani sisters who are fighter pilots have dared
parade themselves in front of the camera in flight suits and
free-flowing hair?

Then, at the end, she decides to have the Piper Colt "hitchhike home",
as we are told by the pellucid voice of the British narrator, as they
showed the Colt being loaded into what is clearly a USAF
transport--uncredited of course. What do you want to bet that the USAF
flew the plane to Frankfurt/Main for her at no charge?


-- all the best, Dan Ford

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