1:25:00
They should've dropped the bomb.
1:25:03
They should've dropped it
1:25:04
two days ago, General.
1:25:06
This Phantom crashed a good 60 miles
1:25:08
beyond the cordoned area.
1:25:09
Men on the ground can't
cordon off airspace, sir.
1:25:11
I just don't understand
why the Wildfire Team
1:25:14
hasn't beefed about
the delay in 7-12.
1:25:17
It's been almost 24 hours,
and not a word from them.
1:25:19
I don't think Piedmont had anything
1:25:21
to do with this crash, Manchek.
1:25:22
It was a fluke.
1:25:25
That plane was only over the W.F. Area
1:25:27
for two minutes at 23,000 feet.
1:25:29
It's a routine training
mission accident, I bet you.
1:25:32
Pilot error.
1:25:33
Let's go.
1:25:39
Check with Wildfire
Message Center, Delta Five.
1:25:41
Make sure everything there is nominal.
1:25:43
Send me word on scrambler
at Big Head crash base.
1:25:46
Okay.
1:25:53
Checklim program completed.
1:25:55
All circuit banks nominal.
1:26:06
Same thing on the M.C.N. Console, Captain.
1:26:10
Just a
minute, Dr. Robertson.
1:26:12
You're saying Stone's
$90 million facility,
1:26:14
which you recommended,
1:26:15
was knocked out
1:26:16
by a sliver of paper?
1:26:18
You tell that
to the taxpayers!
1:26:20
These were highly-trained
1:26:22
electronics men, Senator,
1:26:23
looking for an electronic fault.
1:26:25
The trouble was purely mechanical
1:26:27
of the simplest kind.
1:26:29
But for them, it was like trying to see
1:26:31
an elephant through a microscope.
1:26:32
The sliver had peeled from the roll
1:26:34
and wedged between the bell and striker,
1:26:36
preventing the bell from ringing.
1:26:45
I'm convinced we're
being held in communicado.
1:26:48
Very flattering.
1:26:49
We don't know much more
than when we got here.
1:26:52
We know about Scoop now.
1:26:54
It's possible what Scoop
found was no accident.
1:26:57
I suspect they were looking for
1:26:59
the ultimate biological weapon.