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August 8th 04, 04:03 PM
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Kevin Brooks wrote:
"BUFDRVR" wrote in message ... Kevin Brooks wrote: ISTR that aircraft went down closer to the combat than that Nope, on final to FJDG with a series of non-combat related malfunctions. Oops. Mea culpa. There was one aircraft that went down in the PG IIRC--perhaps that was the AC-130 that was lost? Brooks The AC-130 did crash in the Gulf, so that is likely the one you are thinking of. Mike 
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August 8th 04, 04:19 PM
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"Mike Williamson" wrote
The AC-130 did crash in the Gulf, so that is likely the one you are thinking of. Not really in the Gulf proper. Parts were found along the shores of southern Kuwait. They got repeated SAM calls from the RJ, and never retrograded. The opinion at the time, was they were really scoring big kills and got target fixation, and then were blown out of the sky.
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