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Some people don't seem too convinced we should necessarily jump to that conclusion:
Originally posted by Cole DeSteele
Yeah you right...someone owns that a#$ for $550,000 worth of damaged US military hardware for straight up jackassery.
Retired Navy jet pilot Steve Diamond told the Union-Tribune he thinks the helicopter crew may have had a legitimate reason to be hovering over Lake Tahoe. Someone out hot-dogging probably wouldn't do it in view of another aircrew, or over a popular tourist destination, he said.
"It's possible they were troubleshooting a problem," said Diamond, who retired in 2002. "It's easy to make a snap judgment, but there are other possibilities."