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Another plane down near New York!
A Navy intelligence plane equipped to detect, analyze and block enemy radio
and guidance transmissions. (Recall that the section of the Pentagon
destroyed on September 11 housed Naval Intelligence, a division of U.S.
military and intelligence that has is rumored to be resisting elite plans
globalization at the expense of American sovereignty and interests.)
There are nations, firms and criminal organizations that would be willing to
take substantial risks and invest substantial resources to capture the
technology aboard a Prowler.
It is also possible that this Prowler still carried data collected during
operations in the Middle East (Iraq) and Central Asia (Turkey).
This too fits a very improbable pattern of accidents and terrorism within a
small radius of Manhattan Island,
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Electronic Warfare Plane Crashes
By Associated Press
November 21, 2001, 2:36 PM EST
CHERRY POINT AIR STATION, N.C. -- A Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler electronic
warfare jet crashed into the Atlantic on Wednesday after all four crew
members ejected safely.
The cause of the crash was under investigation.
The plane went down 26 miles off the coast, said Maj. James Bell, a
spokesman for Cherry Point Air Station.
The crew members were all rescued by two helicopters from the base, he said.
They were taken to Carteret Regional Medical Center for checkups but none
had serious injuries.
No decision had been made on whether the aircraft will be recovered, Bell
said. "One factor we will have to consider is the Prowler has sensitive
electronic equipment on it."
Replacement cost for the Prowler, introduced to the Marine Corps in 1984, is
$52 million.
Prowlers are assigned to fly with fighters and bombers to jam enemy radar.
Bell said the squadron to which the jet was assigned had recently returned
from duty in Turkey, where it patrolled no-fly zones over Iraq.
The air station has four Prowler squadrons consisting of about 20 planes,
Bell said.
Prowlers have a range of more than 900 miles without refueling, and can
reach a maximum speed of nearly the speed of sound.
Names of the crew members were withheld until their families could be
notified.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-prowler-crash1121nov21.s
tory
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