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Re: That old ownership issue...again!

Posted by Elliott on Wed Sep 17, 2003 06:25:55 AM

In reply top That old ownership issue...again! posted by andy saunders on Tue Sep 16, 2003 11:29:06 AM

Interesting point you mention about the people who were arrested, they should have known another group was involved as a letter was written to them via the landowner. Would have been polite to have replied (assuming they got the letter), then they could have avoided ripping the intact wings to shreds, tearing the nacelles out and leaving the beach strewn with live rounds. They did dig up two .50 cal machine guns and I know the police were considering firearms charges.



Interesting news today from the MOD who concede that forme
: r USAAF/USAF lost in the UK are apparently NOT the propert
: y of the US Govt as the MOD have long claimed. Although th
: e provisions of the PMR Act apply in the UK to US crash si
: tes, the ownership question is outwith MOD or US Govt cont
: rol and it seems the MOD are likely to accept that positio
: n formally in due course and re-issue Notes of Guidance to
: those involved in recoveries! A small point, but perhaps
: an important one. So what about those individuals who were
: arrested by MOD Police (not me!) a couple of years back a
: nd charged, inter-alia, with theft of US Govt Property?? O
: bviously no theft could have taken place since the stuff d
: idnt belong to them, and this has formally been USAF polic
: y since at least early 1995 if not before. Mmmmm.....! Int
: eresting! Andy Saunders.

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