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Fatal plane crash mystery
Mobile Register ^ | 04/14/04 | joe danborn

Posted on 04/15/2004 1:30:45 AM PDT by My Dog Likes Me

Federal investigators have determined that a single-engine delivery plane that crashed into Big Bateau Bay on Oct. 23, 2002, slammed into something 3,000 feet above the Mobile-Tensaw Delta moments earlier - they're just not sure what it was.

The highly unusual NTSB account points to unidentified red marks on the severely damaged nose and front belly of the plane as evidence that it hit another object in the air...

(Excerpt) Read more at al.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: airplanecrash; aviation; callingartbell; mystery; narcap; ntsb; planecrash; ufo; xfiles
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To: hgro; Tedster
Art Bell has lost his edge and his audience in the midwest on weekends with the loozzer guests he keeps having on the program. Too bad.

Maybe we could persuade Tedster to go on??? I think it would be a BIG improvement...

61 posted on 04/17/2004 7:40:37 AM PDT by null and void (Posts passing in the night...)
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To: null and void
was hillary out on her red broom?
62 posted on 04/17/2004 7:42:09 AM PDT by rrrod
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To: rrrod
We should be so lucky.
63 posted on 04/17/2004 7:45:32 AM PDT by null and void (Posts passing in the night...)
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To: Battle Axe
Check out this link:

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=38966

The Cessna 208's are in the upper left corner of the picture. The DC-10's are sideways on the right.

64 posted on 04/17/2004 7:46:28 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
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To: ampat
The USAF is currently looking on the gulf coast of Florida for a spot to test fire weapons from 200 miles out in the gulf. The specifically want low density land. I doubt any branch flies the missles over populated areas like Mobile.
65 posted on 04/17/2004 7:55:13 AM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace (I'm from the government and I'm here to help.)
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To: My Dog Likes Me
>I've just never seen the NTSB report something like this.

I've never seen this
before either, but isn't
this much better than

them making up crap
like sparks in the fuel tank or
something weird like that?!

66 posted on 04/17/2004 8:01:17 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: Erik Latranyi
How many cargo flights are there in the U.S. every single day? Why would the government follow a jet with a UAV. The UAVs aren't jet powered, so how could they follow the jets. Makes NO sense.
67 posted on 04/17/2004 8:02:05 AM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace (I'm from the government and I'm here to help.)
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To: ItisaReligionofPeace
UAVs aren't jet powered, so how could they follow the jets.

I realized my error after posting. Excuse me while I remove my foot from my mouth.

68 posted on 04/17/2004 8:08:43 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
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To: Erik Latranyi
Fair enough.
69 posted on 04/17/2004 8:35:15 AM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace (I'm from the government and I'm here to help.)
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To: My Dog Likes Me
Just browsing this sight....I live here in Mobile, Alabama, and was at work at Brookley field that night. I knew the pilot, Tom Preziose....he was a nice guy.....at any rate....us folks down here in Mobile are just as puzzled
as you!
There are loads of theories about what happened going around down here......missiles, Drones, drug runners, or wake turbulence...though I doubt that very seriously. I also fly, and I can't see where wake turbulence would be the cause...
72 posted on 05/10/2004 1:07:47 AM PDT by flys4grins
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To: snopercod
Houston Center Radar was out that night, so they didn't have the "Big Picture".
73 posted on 05/10/2004 1:10:19 AM PDT by flys4grins
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To: flys4grins
I don't find a pilot by that name, I did find a paul warren though. Could tom have been a nickname?
74 posted on 05/10/2004 1:13:39 AM PDT by eastforker (The color of justice is green,just ask Johny Cochran!)
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To: flys4grins
and I can't see where wake turbulence would be the cause...

And explain the impact with something?

Welcome to FR.

75 posted on 05/10/2004 1:13:39 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: Erik Latranyi
I share your concern for TWA 800 cover up/
76 posted on 05/10/2004 1:38:37 AM PDT by southland
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To: flys4grins
Just curious, enroute from Mobile to Montgomery it would look like Jacksonville ARTCC would be in control?
77 posted on 05/10/2004 2:10:14 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: Lokibob
UFO'S are virtually never red anywhere on them except for the lighting effects of the propulsion system in certain stages or modes . . . as I understand things.
78 posted on 05/10/2004 3:07:43 AM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: flys4grins
Yes, the pilot seemed to be caught in a bad turn of events, not of his doing.

The Discovery Channel and even PBS Frontline have broadcast fantastic shows on the NTSB. Maybe they'd be interested in this incident. It seems frustrating to me that this mishap would just be tossed aside by the national media.

79 posted on 05/10/2004 3:26:40 AM PDT by My Dog Likes Me
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To: flys4grins
Houston Center Radar was out that night

Very interesting.

80 posted on 05/10/2004 3:36:07 AM PDT by snopercod (I used to be disgusted. Then I became amused. Now I'm disgusted again.)
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