From: "George Sherwood" 

On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 17:58:26 -0600, Bill Lucy wrote:
>
> Somebody explain how the targeting happened and we *still* didn't
> scramble some fighters -- in international air space.
>
> 

I can pretty much guarantee the aircraft was in International waters.  I
have flown the surveillance tracks out there many many times.  I know how
the system works.

Fighters on alert most likely either Okinawa, South Korea or Misawa, Japan.
 Too far to be much use.  Many times I was intercepted by Russian Fighters.
 Not a big deal at all. I would guess the RC-135 was returning to base and
once the fighters got far enough away they turned around. There haven't
been any NK fighter intercepts for over 30 years.  That one in
International waters didn't turn out too well:

http://www.imjinscout.com/EC-121_Shootdown.html

George

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