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From: That Bird wasn't shot down (What I heard)
Date: 9/5/2004
Time: 9:44:50 AM
Remote Name: 209.179.140.82
I worked Flight Ops and recall that narrow escape the crew had. What we were told was that the switch between the tanks got stuck and they just ran out of gas. It was a narrow miss. The officers were all excited and talking; The operator, who'd had to pull and haul the radios all by himself, simply looked disgusted. When they used that Chinook to bring the bird back, it was severly damaged, The VC had blown up the cockpit with a grenade. It had to be retrograded back to the States and we were a bird short after that.