One small correction:
F-15’s are not called “Iron Eagles”.
They are called F-15 Eagles.
Question:
Did anyone see the crash or smoke/debris from it?
That recording could provide some cover, but not all, if the plane did crash.
And why would a white hat kamikaze to take out a clandestine SAM base?
Unless the guy wasn’t in the plane and it was tempted in.
There is smoke in the distance near the island in at least one video I’ve seen; video was not close enough to see if a pilot ejected, however. BTW I am not in the remote control speculation group - I think that’s overly complicated and unnecessary. Why go to the trouble when you just have a hot shot pilot complete his op status by taking the “Q” up for a few runs, draw a “Q”, do the barrel roles, run cover and/or take out something in that area.
in my previous post, “tempted” s/b “remoted”.
Either the plane was being piloted by a person, or remotely.
If a person, I’m still trying to figure out why a white hat would kamikaze a plane into that island.....
and given that its a commercial turboprop without an ejector seat, how did he get out?
if remotely, that opens up a whole nother line of investigation...
The idea is the plane was stolen in order to cause a kerfluffle to cause the F-15s to be scrambled, then the pilot jumps out, F-15s take out the target. I didn’t realise Ketron was so far from Whidbey though. I don’t necessarily see how there could be a connection.
Did anyone see the plane period?
Is one actually missing? Did it join the missing Malaysian Airliner "somewhere in time"?
Wildhighlander57,
You are correct about the F-15 Eagles but there are references made to F-15 Eagles as ‘Iron Eagles’ presumably due to their enduring value and survival in the fighter groups.
https://www.military.com/dodbuzz/2011/06/21/pas11-boeings-iron-eagle
But the Q post “IRON EAGLE” seemed to reference the film of the same name where the son of a POW makes a plan to rescue his father by stealing a plane.
And what do we have in the news? A stolen plane and a mysterious pilot.
I haven’t looked at the timestamps of Q’s post vis a vis the time the news of this plane was released. If anyone has that info handy, please post it.
I pinged xone because his post #243 alluded to the pilot being perhaps a black hat in addition to possibly being a white hat. But in view of Q’s post “IRON EAGLE” and the possible connection to the film of the same name, I would weigh as more likely the pilot is a white hat.