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Old 07-03-2013 | 08:00 PM
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From: FAA 'Flight Check'
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3 missiles hit the airplane at 13,500 and climbing (2 from the sea and a 3rd from a bay on Long Island)- MANPADS mind you unless we have multiple ships with armed Sea Sparrows lurking about - AT THE SAME TIME?
Would someone with a military background - and especially an expertise in Air Defense (cue JamesNoBrakes) like to explain exactly how that feat was timed to perfection?
Just use some UNclassified max altitudes and ranges of different MANPADS and sea launched surface to air systems and get back with me
(Oh - and like others have said - Please EVERYONE - don't speak about what you just saw tonight - I know that having unrehearsed live missile firings at night with no briefings is a bit unusual - - - but 'can I get your attention over here and please stare into this zappy thingy' [think Men in Black scene]

Amazing.