Senators' Copter Makes Emergency Landing(updated:due to weather all are safe)

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

MSNBC they are all okay, due to a snow storm.


WASHINGTON (AP) — A helicopter carrying three senior U.S. senators has made an emergency landing in Afghanistan.

Sens. John Kerry, Joseph Biden and Chuck Hagel were aboard the aircraft., according to Jon Summers, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The lawmakers are on a trip this week that includes stops in India, Turkey and Pakistan.

Kerry and Biden are Democrats from Massachusetts and Delaware, respectively, and the Republican Hagel is from Nebraska.


Read more: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iEmHNWLQiWOBtCelix4lsBu3LQKAD8UUTQT80

[smoogatz]

1. Here's hoping everybody's okay. n/t

[samdogmom]

2. Yikes! Please let everyone be okay!

[mmonk]

3. Yep, just heard.

Here's hoping they are well.

[onehandle]

4. CNN says it was for bad weather. nt

[Joanne98]

5. They're okay!

[flamingyouth]

6. I hope everyone's okay.

Scary. :(

[ramapo]

7. WTF?

Is it really necessary they go there?

Is it smart to travel together?

Don't they have work to do?

I do hope they're ok....

[Muttocracy]

11. Biden, Kerry, and Hagel went to observe elections in Pakistan + trips to India, Turkey, Afghan.

http://biden.senate.gov/newsroom/details.cfm?id=293058&&

but I agree, I hate having both Biden and Kerry there.

[karynnj]

17. This is their work - they are 3 of senior people on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

They observed the Pakistani elections and met with leaders there, and they went to Turkey, India, and Afghanistan. All countries where we need leaders meeting people. It is necessary for them to go and it was not a boondoggle trip.

The Senate is not in session. All three of these men are serious statesmen, who are using the recess to get first hand information on these countries. As to traveling together, I assume the nature of the area is such that they need and get extensive protection. It might be difficult to seperate them and provide them each with that level of protection. I think there is a maximum to the number of Senators travelling together - but it is obviously greater than 3.

[Muttocracy]

18. thanks for your post (in my frenzy I missed the "work to do" thing) nt

[Parche]

24. It is good for them to go

But during these times, i dont trust this admin, and the CIA could make anything happen
like an 'accident'
It worries me big time...................:scared: :scared: :hi:

[babylonsister]

8. Due to a SNOWSTORM! All okay, per MSNBC. nt

[SoFlaJet]

9. Due to a snowstorm all OK

just now

[countryjake]

10. Snowstorm...all passengers have been safely transported...

according to CNN.

[Unbowed]

12. Thank God they're ok. n/t

[mzmolly]

20. Ditto.

PHEW!

[Muttocracy]

13. whew. now we can go back to watching our embassies burn. nt

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

14. A Helicopter?

* l *

[Muttocracy]

15. might be easier to take off and land in the mountains there? not sure where they were nt

[Muttocracy]

16. msnbc link

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23279522/

[Strelnikov_]

19. That's a target rich environment . .

for a neocon.

[TwilightGardener]

21. Yep. I wandered over to Free Republic, out of curiosity, and they

couldn't contain their disappointment that the three are OK--the mods had to clean up some comments.

[Muttocracy]

25. omg. glad I've never looked at that site nt

[Inuca]

30. I dare not imagine

what the comments may look like... two super democrats and their "favorite" republican all together....

[blm]

22. That's what I said before they left. Especially since something's brewing in Turkey

and they needed to get ahead of whatever lie or plot Cheney is cooking up with his trip to Turkey in a few weeks. They likely are trying to determine the truth BEFORE Cheney starts spinning.

[TwilightGardener]

23. I'm paranoid, but I do think it's weird that the "official story" is a snowstorm, but

Hagel's spokesman said "equipment problem".

[rucognizant]

26. ANd.....

Meanwhile smooth flight from Africa!

[Muttocracy]

28. while Bush is dancing his way through Africa

:eyes:

3 real foreign policy leaders spend their Senate time off going to Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, and Turkey.

[Cass]

27. Senators make emergency landing (Kerry, Biden and Hagel)

Source: MSNBC.com

Helicopters carrying three senators (John Kerry, Joe Biden, and Chuck Hagel) made emergency landings in the mountains of Afghanistan because of a snowstorm. (video report)

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/

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They are ok, thankfully.

[ChazII]

29. Glad that the senators are safe. n/t