From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

Obviously it was disassembled for transport.  Wings aren't welded onto airplanes.

"Geo"  wrote in message
news:42d6b195$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> maybe because they weren't looking for broken jets that couldn't fly if
you
> strapped them to a rocket? It didn't even have wings, so it wouldn't have
> appeared to be a plane when viewed from space.
>
> Maybe because of all the scrap in iraq from the 1990 war there is no good
> way to "see thru the noise"?
>
> Geo.

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