Tighten Up the Tinfoil, Boys; We're Goin' In!

By now everyone's probably heard about the American B-52 that accidentally flew from North Dakota to Louisiana with nuclear warheads on board.

As can be expected, this has got the conspiracy folks champing away at the bit.  Though there are numerous theories and conspiracies, the current one that I've been seeing the most of is this bit of drivel (snipped from one site, though I'm sure there are other wordings):

"Since the Minot story broke a week ago about the missing nukeclandestine operation from Minot, we have the following (for those who are paying attention):

1. All six people listed below are from Minot Airforce base
2. All were directly involved as loaders or as pilots
3. All are now dead
4. All within the last 7 days in 'accidents'"

Silly me, seeing more than there is to this story. I guess this is just another coincidence.

But no doubt now that there will be more coincidences in the near future because as I have stated before, you need about fourteen signatures to get an armed nuke onto a B-52, and they may have told their wives and friends."

Included with this, as evidence, is a set of 6 links to stories about air force personnel who died.  Since I love conspiracies, I'm going to spend a moment or two debunk or at least severely question their main points.  Click on, if you're actually interested in this type of stuff.

Right, here we go:

"1. All six people listed below are from Minot Airforce base": First point, first problem.  Of the six links provided, two of them refer to the same person.  (Unless, of course, the government killed him twice.  Tricky people, those government assassins.)  That's fine though, as one of the other links contains a report of two USAF personnel who died in an automobile accident.  Except, of course, that they were stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base.  Granted, it was the plane's destination, but it's still not "all six people listed below are from Minot Airforce [sic] base."

"2. All were directly involved as loaders or as pilots": There's a problem with this statement.  Namely, it relies on us believing the speaker not to have made any mistakes, since only one of the articles actually refers to what the duties of the deceased was — and there's a little problem with that article, which we will address by skipping ahead to

"4. All within the last 7 days in 'accidents'": The articles provided are dated the following: Sept. 12th, Sept. 15th, Sept. 12th (duplicate of the first article), Jul. 5th, Jul. 20th., and Sept. 10th.  Unless we've gone through another calendar switch that's even more drastic than the one of 1752 and I merely missed it (always a possibility, I suppose — would explain why the summer seemed to disappear so quickly), then it should be fairly obvious that there's no possible way to arrange those dates so that they are all within a week of each other.  Which brings us back to

"3. All are now dead": So far we've had two incorrect claims and one unsubstantiated one.  If it wasn't for the fact that the reports of their deaths were from other quarters, I'm not even sure I'd be inclined to believe this one either.