October 23, 2001
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Sherlock Holmes they ain't
Instapundit points out that plastic.com has done an analysis of the helicopter wreckage:
there is more available evidence casting doubt on the Taliban's assertions than the crack CNN research team managed to turn up. As the CNN article notes, pieces of the wreckage in question are labeled 'Boeing' and 'Loud Engineering.' Problem is, the only Boeing helicopters that use a Loud Engineering landing gear assembly, as displayed by the Taliban, are the CH-46 Sea Knight and the CH-47 Chinook -- both large heavy-lift transport helicopters, unlikely choices for an air assault operation, for which one of the Sikorsky H-60 Blackhawk variants would generally be employed. Of course it took about three minutes to track that down, and who at a major media outlet has that kind of time? Maybe the Taliban actually shot down three US helicopters and they're smugly saving that revelation for later?"
Got to be embarassing for the folks in Atlanta.
Posted by Mindles H. Dreck at October 23, 2001 10:26 AM | Technorati inbound links