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Wed Oct 14, 2009 9:49 pm

What a headline...

Small plane EXPLODES!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,566160,00.html

Sounds pretty brutal.
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Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:23 am

Re: What a headline...

Ahhh...Man! That is the second one I lost this month! I am going back to submarines! 8)
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Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:18 am

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They began to sample the reefer prematurely???
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Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:42 am

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I wonder if they had a little help from a military drug interdiction op?
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Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:02 pm

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hotrod150 wrote:I wonder if they had a little help from a military drug interdiction op?


That's the first thing that came to my mind. Shoot him down, then claim it was a fuel tank explosion.

Yeh, I like conspiracy theories,
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Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:50 pm

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Savannah-Tom wrote:
hotrod150 wrote:I wonder if they had a little help from a military drug interdiction op?

That's the first thing that came to my mind. Shoot him down, then claim it was a fuel tank explosion. ....


Oh well, shit happens.
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Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:59 pm

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Maybe they hat some kind of inappropriate aux fuel tank inside of the plane which started to leak... :shock: :roll:
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Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:02 am

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Crap! That means the price is going to go up!!! Going to have to start growing it here. :lol:
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