Dear Jose, I agree totally with your elegant analysis, and accept Gabriel's
explanation. Of course, if IAF fighters took off from Pune at 3.30 in the
morning, the planes from Goa were long gone by then. Warm regards to you
both, Victor
--- On Sat, 10/27/12, J. Colaco < jc> wrote:
1: Gabriel @
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2012-October/226237.html
"the last TAIP flight took off overladen with the last of the families
of the Portuguese in the dead of night. The Indian airforce, according
to Bharat-Rakshak, was scrambled TO GIVE CHASE"
2: VRR (to Gabr
"IAF were scrambled to give chase" was what I said. "Give chase" may have been
too strong a word that I used - perhaps "investigate" would have been better.
The actual word used by the pilot reporting the incident was "intercept".
The information comes from a paragraph of
http://www.bharat-r
On Oct 25, 2012, the always elegant and distinguished Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
wrote:
There's a fascinating Portuguese study, just become public, that throws an
incredible light on that There's a fascinating Portuguese study, just become
public, that throws an incredible light on that episode an