{"id":1759,"date":"2005-02-01T15:53:29","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T22:53:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-01T15:53:29","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T22:53:29","slug":"raf-hercules-downed-by-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/01\/raf-hercules-downed-by-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"RAF Hercules downed by bomb?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wokr13.tv\/news\/national\/story.aspx?content_id=EDA0657F-94B6-4CDE-9CBF-F69FE025C621\">UPI reports:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Military experts have said the plane was too high &#8212; at 15,000 feet &#8212; to be reached by [an anti-tank missile], the Sun newspaper reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A senior ministry source told the paper: &#8220;It is clear the C-130 exploded in midair and shattered into thousands of pieces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is almost exactly what happened when the Pan Am jet was blown up over Lockerbie (Scotland) by an on-board bomb.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most obvious explanation for this is that the disaster was caused by a midair explosion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was election day throughout Iraq, and to the insurgents, downing a big plane like an RAF Hercules would be a huge coup.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Royal Air Force Hercules was flying from Baghdad to Balad when it came down 25 miles north of the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPI reports: Military experts have said the plane was too high &#8212; at 15,000 feet &#8212; to be reached by [an anti-tank missile], the Sun newspaper reported Tuesday. A senior ministry source told the paper: &#8220;It is clear the C-130 exploded in midair and shattered into thousands of pieces. &#8220;This is almost exactly what happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}