[Yosemitest]

"And if that happened, the mice could have been at the bottom of the mountain even before the plane arrived. "

"WHAT IFs" are so much fun ...


They could have been on the aircraft ... BEFORE the crash.

Consider this:

The Clinton administration orders a Compartmentalized Intelligence Security Mission, and briefs the pilot before the flight that a "Spec Ops BlackWater Team" will go with them for a "No-Coordination Parachute Mission" in Southern Croatia, and are not to be documented on any paperwork, anywhere.
The jump is to be made from the rear door and the crew will need to close the aircraft door after the jump.
Before the flight the aircraft has already been 'set up' for the compass to be off by a few degrees.
One of the "Spec Ops' team has to be in the cockpit to update the pilot and copilot of minor corrections just before the jump, but the passenger attendant doesn't have a "need to know" about those adjustments, but is to close the door after the jump.
That one "Spec Ops" member in the cockpit, takes care of business while the other members of that 'team' prepare and do the jump,
and then he rushes to the back after finishing off the cockpit, and makes his jump as the last member of that team.
The passenger attendant closes the door and goes to his seat for the landing.
The pilots are now incapacitated, and the aircraft crashes into the mountain.
The team, now descending on square parachutes maneuvers the chutes toward the direction of the aircraft that has crashed.
They land, bury their chutes, or take them up the mountain to the wreckage and throw them into the fire, and them 'complete their mission' ensuring that Ron Brown didn't survive to tell his story.

How's that for a "what if" ?

[Redwood71]

Accelerated free fall (AFF) jumps occur between 10,000 and 13,000 feet, while static jumps can be as low as 3,500 feet and the plane is typically travelling at between 80 and 110 mph when the skydiver jumps. The minimum stall speed for a 737-200 with controlled flaps of around 40 degrees and moderately loaded is around 150 MPH. If they tried to drop the speeds to get the airspeed down to a jumping capacity, they’d have stalled and hit the ground when they tried to jettison the jumpers.

Additionally, while in the air, the average exit hatch has about 3 to 4 tons of pressure holding it in place. Even on the ground, once the pressurization is turned on, there’s maybe 400 to 800 pounds of pressure. So if a hatch was going to be opened anywhere on the aircraft in flight, it would have had to have been blown and there was nothing in the NTSB report about an explosion to release the hatch. And they can get a lot from bent metal and outward burns if they had been there.

I think someone was on the flight to fall on their sword for the Clintons. And it isn’t the first time. They were there to kill Brown and whoever was necessary, and shoot the pilots and fly the aircraft into the mountain. It just seems strange to me that an aircraft can veer and hit the biggest mountain in the area. Why not a smaller one? It was made sure it happened.

And if the compass that they already said was older was going to fail, how did it happen at that point and not any time during the flight when it would have been noticed? Someone changed the ascent during approach by that 5 degrees.

rwood