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Athas proves he's stupid once more!

By Legionary

This is really for all you Athas lovers out there, here's your hero at work!
Getting it wrong again!

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/071104/Columns/sitreport.html

Athas says:

[i]"There were claims by some officials that the Situation Report last week had falsely reported that eight Chinese built K-8 aircraft of the SLAF were destroyed during the airbase attack. One of them claimed that the SLAF possessed only one and that our report was wrong. The Sunday Times stands by its statement that one K-8 was destroyed outside the hangar and that five others were damaged inside the hangar. A picture on this page shows one of the five damaged K-8 aircraft inside the hangar."[/i]

Picture from SundayTimes:

[img]http://www.sundaytimes.lk/071104/images/k8.jpg[/img]
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/071104/images/k8.jpg

Caption:

[i]A damaged Chinese built K-8 intermediate trainer aircraft inside the SLAF hangar at Anuradhapura. Note the glass canopy is warped due to the heat from fire. The nose and the wings are damaged. This is just one of five K-8 aircraft that were inside the hangar.[/i]

Facts:

[b]That is NOT a K-8[/b]

Its a Nanchang CJ-6 training aircraft:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0782777/M/

[b]This is a K-8[/b]:

http://www.aero-image.com/SLAF-special/Photo_pages_fixed/K8_2.htm

The K-8 is a jet trainer aircraft. Doesn't Athas know the difference between a propeller engine aircraft and a jet engine aircraft?

Amusingly, with pride Athas proclaims: [I] The Sunday Times stands by its statement that one K-8 was destroyed outside the hangar and that five others were damaged inside the hangar[/I].

If he was ignorant enough to get this wrong, it makes you wonder what else he gets wrong?

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