No plan B?
I find it hard to believe a great planner like Rafer had no plan B in case they couldn't get home via plane. After all, the plane could have crashed en route or while landing.
sharePretty hard to believe that they didn't have a plan B in the first place. Why did they bother with a parachute insertion, when they could have just landed their plane at the airport and seized it then, instead of taking chances on their forces being spread out or injured in a jump? The airport was lightly defended and they were never challenged when they entered the Congo (assumed) airspace for the paradrop. They could have come up with a likely ruse (like a supply flight with engine trouble) and landed at the airport, seized the place via surprise, then send off the assault team to hit the barracks. That way, they could have brought their own transport, kept the plane under their control, and have an escape route if things went TU (U is "up, figure out for yourself what the T stands for).
A real professional outfit would have had a Plan B, C and D.
"Fortunately, Ah keep mah feathers numbered for just such an emergency!"
Look at the sas mission that wents tits up in the first gulf war, no way would you think they would have had no back up plan...........it happens.
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