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Norwegian AF C-130J Hercules missing

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Re: Norwegian AF C-130J Hercules missing in Northern Sweden.

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Aircraft (debris) found...

info: http://mil.no/excercises/coldresponse20 ... cules.aspx

sad news..

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Five Norwegian officers are presumed dead in last Thursday's crash, when the C130J apparently hit a Swedish mountain at high speed

More from Reuters: http://reut.rs/yeyjva
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strange twist to this story:
a Flemish newspaper reported today about the worldwide struggle to get oil. It is even called the new Cold War.
Somewhere in the article they mention the crash of the Norwegian aircraft when it was participating in large military excercises.
Norway is one of the players to protect its interests in oil exploration around the North Pole. ( Cold War...)
And we know how important oil is for this small economy, depending on Statoil.

So maybe we may assume that this terrible crash are victims of our thirst for oil?

http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/2764/milieu/ar ... rlog.dhtml

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Talkin bout oil
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Back on topic... :twisted:

http://www.thelocal.se/42436/20120805/
Black box from Hercules plane crash found

Published: 5 Aug 12 11:03 CET

The mystery surrounding the Norwegian Hercules plane which crashed into Kebnekaise may be nearing a solution,
as the Swedish Army’s ranger battalion has found one of the plane’s two black boxes.

“I saw something orange peeking up from the snow,” said army captain Carl-Johan Olofsson to the Aftonbladet newspaper.

The Hercules military plane crashed straight into Sweden’s highest peak Kebnekaise during an exercise this spring, and all five of the Norwegian officers on board were killed.

Why the plane crashed has so far been a mystery.
Continues at http://www.thelocal.se/42436/20120805/ :idea:

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