"Mercenary" plane seized in Zimbabwe: USAF C-22B

[Robb]

Unless I am horribly mistaken. :shrug:

[AP]

1. Wouldn't that be like an act of war?

Could you retrace this info for me.

How'd you get the serial number? Is there a picture somewhere, or is this being reported?

[lectrobyte]

2. it was an ex-USAF C-22B sold to Dodson Aviation and then resold

to a South African company, if you believe the things you read on the web. Google up the tail number N4610 and see what you believe. Could be a lot of things, but even I am not so cynical to believe they'd be so brazen as to use a military plane outright. I got the tail number from the yahoo news article, sorry, don't have the link handy right now.

[Robb]

4. I've got it in a hangar

at Andrews AFB with the 201st Airlift, DC Air National Guard as of May 2001. :shrug:

[MrBenchley]

3. Where is Eugene Hasenfus these days, I wonder?

http://www.nwcitizen.com/wic/Quickly/WherearetheynowEugeneHase.html

"His statements -- and a little black book with some very damaging phone numbers in it -- confirmed that the Reagan administration was engaged in a series of criminal acts amounting to illegal war, piracy and murder in attempting to overthrow the legitimate government of Nicaragua. As the tale unwound, it turned out that the merry men from the White House were stealing sophisticated weapons from U.S. military stores, smuggling them to Iran, selling them for exorbitant prices and funneling the money into "deniable" criminal organizations in Central America. A fine mess. Ultimately, President George Bush I, issued a series of pardons to his cronies even though none of them had yet been convicted of crimes -- thus granting a whole raft of unsavory characters, traitors and crooks permanent lifetime "get-out-of-jail-free" cards."