US aircraft in Shannon emergency landing

national | anti-war / imperialism | news report

Thursday November 06, 2003 17:05

by duck and cover

Question: is this new and different or just the usual usual going through Shannon and the UK?

US aircraft in Shannon emergency landing
http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/1106/shannon.html

November 6, 2003

(14:45) A US aircraft with 282 US troops on board has been forced to make an emergency landing at Shannon Airport because of engine trouble.

The four-engine Trans Air plane, en route from Baltimore to Frankfurt, had to shut down an engine and dump fuel over the Shannon estuary after reporting mechanical problems to air traffic control.

Emergency fire services were on standby when the plane landed safely at 9.25am.

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From: the Peacewatchers at USAFs Fairford and Welford bases in the UK

http://www.global-elite.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=200&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Since Saturday, people in the Highlands of Scotland have been witnessing large movements of US warplanes overhead. Experienced observers say the large numbers are reminiscent of those that preceded the bombing of Iraq in 1998 and military strikes on Libya in the1980's as well as the first Gulf War.

At the weekend warplanes were flying over at a rate of roughly one every 15 minutes. As well as watching them from the ground the plane spotters have also been able to overhear pilots talking by listening to their radio frequencies.

At this rate some 288 warplanes would have passed over Scotland in three days.

It is thought that the planes have flown on a route from the US over the north pole to bases in Europe and the Mediterranean. The size and scale of the movement suggests that the US may be preparing to strike at a country in the Middle East in the next week to ten days.

Please pass this information on as widely as possible- the US may be planning to use the pretext of "foreign" terrorist attacks on US personnel in Iraq to attack Iran or Syria. Please alert any sympathetic elected representatives, media representatives and other sympathetic organisations. Publicising this military movement may prevent the air-strikes.