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Ford_Prefect

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1. Along with the injuries to personnel they just wrote off a 48 million dollar aircraft.
Thu Jan 13, 2022, 01:36 PM
Jan 2022

I understand that was not a choice of preference, nor was it part of the flight plan, but it costs one hell of a lot of school books when one goes down.

At some point you begin to ask how much is it really worth to build and fly such expensive military aircraft when the you consider how the contracts get done and how comfortable the executives at Boeing, Rockwell, et al live.

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