{"id":1763,"date":"2005-02-02T14:06:17","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T21:06:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-02T14:06:17","modified_gmt":"2005-02-02T21:06:17","slug":"speculating-on-the-raf-herc-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/02\/speculating-on-the-raf-herc-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Speculating on the RAF Herc crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce R who runs, as Henley says, &#8220;&#8230;<em>your go-to site for questions about SAM strike authenticity<\/em>,&#8221; on Sunday&#8217;s RAF Herc crash:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can see only two realistic possibilities for why this plane crashed: mechanical failure unrelated to terrorists (something big, too, like a centerline gasoline tank explosion) is still a possibility, although unlikely in such a normally reliable aircraft. More likely, though, is a bomb&#8230; and the Al Jazeera footage is meant in part to disguise how that was done (misleading people into thinking it might be a missile extends the threat across the entire country, and may leave open the possibility of a repeat.) Alternatively the footage was done up long ago, and was being kept in the can until some act of fatal chance could be found to pin it on&#8230; unlikely, but still possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snappingturtle.net\/flit\/archives\/2005_02_01.html#005184\" target=\"_blank\">More here. <\/a> Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highclearing.com\/archivesuo\/week_2005_01_30.html#005878\" target=\"_blank\">Jim.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce R who runs, as Henley says, &#8220;&#8230;your go-to site for questions about SAM strike authenticity,&#8221; on Sunday&#8217;s RAF Herc crash: I can see only two realistic possibilities for why this plane crashed: mechanical failure unrelated to terrorists (something big, too, like a centerline gasoline tank explosion) is still a possibility, although unlikely in such [&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-1763","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\/1763","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=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}