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Don't think I'd classify that thing as a 'spy plane'... That ancient thing doesn't have the CFM engines, still has the analog cockpit.
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CNN headline - Trump bribes USAF spy plane to retrieve missing emails.
Question for the pilots. Why make an emergency landing for a gear problem when you weren't intending to land in the first place? What sort of problem would force them to land instead of returning to a more friendly area?
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Does it take a plane that big to haul 30,000 email printouts?
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Why does it have 'Open Skies' on the tail? Testing the treaty?
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They verify compliance of the treaty.
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Notice the complete blackout of previous Russian overflights of America. The corruption runs deep in D.C. and the news media........
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Russians get to overfly the US (with an American observer onbaord) to verify our compliance of the treaty.
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Think about the possibilities. A stowaway from the ME hides in the wheel well hoping to get to the US. He ends up in the middle of Siberia. BTW, this was not a secret mission. The flight was allowed by treaty. A United States 'spy plane' has made an emergency landing in eastern Russia, it has emerged today. The surveillance Boeing OC-135B aircraft was flying a mission over Siberia as allowed under the Treaty on Open Skies when it reported a problem with its landing gear. The unarmed plane made an emergency landing at Khabarovsk airport, but a military source in Russia has questioned whether the technical glitch was genuine.
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Ends up much to do about nothing...
The airplane departed that base earlier in the day on a return flight back to RAF Mildenhal. Landing gear wouldn't retract after takeoff so the plane returned to the airport.
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