-Caveat Lector- MYSTERY OF APACHE CRASHES DEEPENS ================================= (CNNS, 05/06/99) -- Two Apache helicopters have recently, mysteriously, crashed in the Yugoslav region. According to UPI, "NATO has not yet released the cause of either crash." [1] UPI reports that the choppers may have crashed due to "a material failure, pilot error, or a bird or wire strike..." [2] CNNS source Rhea Fortean (pseudonym) has reminded this news service that an Apache aircraft also recently crashed here in the United States. The cause or causes of the Apache crashes are not yet being told. As with all cases where the U.S. government withholds information, this invites theorizing as to what caused the crashes. (Often, too, even when the government does make public its information, theorizing still occurs since the government is not always a credible source of information.) What did bring down the Apaches? As cited above, UPI reports that a random, flying bird could have sent one of the choppers down. Are the Serbs using arsenals of kamikaze birds as part of their air-defense? Did a clandestine Serb unit penetrate into Albania and release a flock of geese at a strategic moment? Or did, possibly, a lone Serb with a sling-shot score a direct hit on one of the low-flying choppers? This news service speculates that pilots of the Apaches are to be used as kamikaze pilots over Yugoslavia, and that some of these pilots have become over-eager and are crashing their helicopters ahead of schedule. (See previous CNNS report, "Crashing Apaches Are Kamikazes?", 05/05/99, available at our web site, listed at bottom of this article.) If overzealous kamikaze pilots are indeed the cause of the crashes, shouldn't we skip the training phase and send the Apaches right now to fly over Yugoslavia? After all, at least if they crash over there they might take out a traffic light or a stop sign in the process. Reportedly, native American Apaches are incensed that their tribal name has been linked to the infamous aircraft. They are said to believe that the choppers are giving their tribe a bad name. Speculation is rampant as to what exactly is causing the Apache helicopters, manufactured by Boeing, to keep crashing. Privately, the "buzz" (whispered talk) refers to the choppers as "Flying Coffins." As noted in the previous CNNS report, Mother Jones magazine has detailed how the choppers, when fully loaded with fuel and ammunition, have a *negative* Vertical Rate Of Climb (VROC). This means, according to Mother Jones, that the Apache "Attack" Helicopters not only have trouble gaining altitude, but have trouble maintaining altitude. Is this why they are so inclined to crash? But according to his European sources, CNNS special correspondent Sherman Skolnick indicates that the true cause of the crashes may be "actual in-fighting in U.S. Military wherein some are shooting at EACH OTHER." Skolnick cautions that such in-fighting as cause of the crashes sounds hard to believe, but adds that "some in a position to know believe it to be true." According to UPI's report, "The accidents will not affect NATO's use of the Apaches when Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Wesley Clark asks for them... This doesn't alter any plans..." [3] But according to the CBS Evening News broadcast of May 5, 1999, "Even before the latest crash, the Pentagon was having second thoughts about sending the choppers into combat. One senior officer says the added firepower does not justify the risk of flying low and slow over Kosovo." (After all, the Serbs are known to be armed with sling-shots and bows-and-arrows.) So what *did* cause the choppers to crash? At this time, we are not being told, officially, why the "Flying Coffins" keep self-destructing. And even if/when the official word comes out, it's veracity is likely to be doubted. Thus arise "conspiracy theories," as a populist method of guessing the truth. ---------------------------<< Notes >>--------------------------- [1] "Apache crewmen named; crash accidental." UPI, 5/5/99. [2] Ibid. [3] Ibid. -- CNNS (Conspiracy Nation News Service) is an INDEPENDENT news outlet, not owned by anyone. (But of course, we would say that, wouldn't we?) BEWARE THE CFR! BEWARE THE CIA! BEWARE THE KNIGHTS! http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cnns.html DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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