>>>However, there have been no statements from the State Department, the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, or any other authority warning of stolen airliners.
The national threat level has not been raised. Algerian and Moroccan military and air defense, already on high alert due to the unrest in nearby Libya, would undoubtedly have noticed multiple flights of unidentified passenger aircraft.<<<
Wow. So that's the verifiable "proof" that the claim is "Mostly False"? That no one has made a public statement to confirm?!
As a thread on the aviation community site airliners.net documents,several of the planes claimed in rumors as "missing" or "stolen" have actually been accounted for, having been either caught outside of Tripoli at the time the airport fell
Whaaa? there are pictures of the fallen airport with rebels on the airplan....never mind.
to opposition forces or relocated by their operators (Air Contractors of Dublin) to an airport in Malta for safekeeping.
Oh, thank god. we can just go to the Air Contractors of Dublin to get the straight story....Hmmmm, no mention of any of this under their news page, or anywhere else...Well, a guy on a internet forum said it was so, therefore proof enough, I imagine.
Some of the other airliners were likely destroyed in the fighting or damaged beyond the possibility of operation.
Well that settles it. An anonymous post on a message board forum confirms that "most of them *were sent somewhere else* (of course they are pictured at the Tripoli airport after it fell, but...hush....details...) and some of them, you know, give or take a jumbo jetliner or two, were
probably destroyed.
Nothing to see here, move along. Exhausting investigative research on behalf of snopes.com
Put your blinders back on, how dare you!!!