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Posted by Joe Scheil on Thu Apr 03, 2003 11:38:15 PM
In reply top They have flown MiG-23's recently(at least they did lastSept posted by Richard Allnutt on Thu Apr 03, 2003 08:31:54 PM
verify this, thats just unbelievable! I have no doubt that it may have happened, but it would be good for CNN to air it..
: Check out the Air Force Monthly magazine on the news stand
: now. In the "Write-off" section is an interesting bit on
: a MiG-23 incident last september. Apparently a group of th
: em were taking off on a bombing exercise in central Iraq,
: when one of them broke away from the formation and tried t
: o attack a presidential palace that the pilot supposedly k
: new Saddam Hussein was occupying. The aircraft didn't get
: to drop its weapon though, as it was shot down before it c
: ould. The pilot made the unfortunate decision to bale out.
: He was caught, and personally "interrogated" by Saddam hi
: mself, before being burnt alive in front of his fellow air
: men to teach them a lesson.