NATO has implicitly denied that the Iranians shot down their spy plane. It claims, however, that the pilots “lost control” of the plane late last week and it’s missing.
It hasn’t confirmed the model, but it says this is the lost plane the Iranians are referring to.
NATO published the information in a brief official statement released by the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan:
The UAV to which the Iranians are referring may be a US unarmed reconnaissance aircraft that had been flying a mission over western Afghanistan late last week. The operators of the UAV lost control of the aircraft and had been working to determine its status.
There are no more details at this time.
light487
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:25 AMOr it could have been just the Iranians…. or crappy design and/or manufacturing..
RB
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:53 AMOr drunk UAV operators…
Nathan
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:23 AMor the UAV operators wireless PS3 controller ran out of batteries and they couldn’t find the USB cable in time.
BRIK
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 5:50 PMMaybe they were sitting more than two feet away and couldn’t reach.