Oh good grief you were serious! Staged? :rolleyes: It shows you how far a die-hard conspiracy minded brain will take things to. Yes there are conspiracy loons out there that still don’t believe that two Libyan Pilots defected with their Mirage F.1s to Malta.
The same ‘scenario’. Really? It isn’t unprecedented for aircrew to make a point of protest and fly their aircraft out. It happened in the late 1990s with Albanian aircrew refusing orders and flying their aircraft to Italy.
Why is it so hard to comprehend that aviators would take such action as a form of protest? In the case of the Syrian Pilot he is a high ranker and his actions have made him a hero in the eyes of those protesting against the Syrian Government. Such high profile defections make the news and grab the worlds attention. If he was just to abandon his post and defect internally to the FSA then it wouldn’t have the same impact.
It also forces the Governments to acknowledge the fact that the defection has taken place and ask for their property back. That also plays out on the world stage as Malta refused all attempts by the then Libyan Government to return their property much to their annoyance. Will the Jordanians impound the MiG or seek UN assistance over the matter?
So Nic, is your brain still screaming? Are you still suggesting/hinting that the MiG-21 isn’t Syrian? :rolleyes:
One’s hero is another one’s traitor. Belenko ? American hero, russian traitor. Rodfa ? Israeli hero, iraqi traitor. And so on. Personally , after thinking of this defection thing, i think all that do it are cowards. There’s one thing to opose whatever you think it worth opposing in your country (but be ready to stand up for it, and be ready to face the consequences), another thing is to BETRAY your country and run to conveniently save your backside to a foreign country , not only with millions worth of hardware ( which YOUR people paid for for YOU to fly), but also with information that can be used to kill YOUR OWN countrymen. What’s “heroic” with that?
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