To: tmp02
The aircraft was a Boeing 737. I researched this indepth awhile back, even getting actual images of the airframe in question. It was refitted with a couple of 1,500 gallon fuel tanks where the passengers used to sit. It is literally a flying bomb.
I hear rumors this aircraft is in South America somewhere.
To: Sean Osborne Lomax
The aircraft was a Boeing 737. I researched this indepth awhile back, even getting actual images of the airframe in question. Was it a white plane with gold and dark red or burgundy lettering or design?
To: Sean Osborne Lomax
Or a vehicle well suited to deliver something or someone from a long distance.
9,716 posted on
01/13/2004 9:06:23 AM PST by
SCR1
To: Sean Osborne Lomax
Isn't that the flight (missing plane) that is believed to have crash in Benin on Christmas?
To: Sean Osborne Lomax
I think you meant a Boeing 727 Sean, not a 737...
You say "It was refitted with a couple of 1,500 gallon fuel tanks..." How about FIVE of those tanks? For a 7500 gallon capacity?
I sure hope the plane hasn't somehow make its way to the southwestern US, if you know what I'm talking about. :-(
(can't find the article anymore, link is at home, but there was a report that 7300 gallons of gasoline - if you can believe that - were "stolen" from a Phoenix AZ gas station recently)
BTW, that Christmas plane crash in Benin was apparently not the retrofitted plane being sought.
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