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Fatal plane crash mystery
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| 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: My Dog Likes Me
Maybe it hit the Columbian Express drug flight to Mena.
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posted on
04/15/2004 11:22:33 AM PDT
by
VadeRetro
(Faster than a speeding building! Able to leap tall bullets in a single bound!)
To: ampat
I find it hard to believe the Navy fires cruise missiles that fly over populated areas (except in Iraq). They usually "test" cruise missiles in desert areas.
I found it hard to believe also but that's what I read. At the time, that was the fastest growing county in Alabama.
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posted on
04/15/2004 11:59:47 AM PDT
by
jrushing
(VRWC)
To: leadpenny
thanks for the ping LP, but for this one, I think you better ping Mulder for the X-Files.
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posted on
04/15/2004 2:53:49 PM PDT
by
XBob
To: null and void
You mean like the red stuff on the seats of Flight 800?Could be?
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posted on
04/15/2004 5:10:07 PM PDT
by
Cold Heat
(Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs)
To: familyofman
Not very close to Arkansas. It happened near Mobile.
To: My Dog Likes Me
Maybe the plane was headed south on a pickup run..
46
posted on
04/15/2004 10:03:36 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(C'est la guerre.)
To: Moose4
Great link on the Cessna Caravan. Looks like a reliable workhorse.
To: Lokibob
You're right. It was a UFO, technically. That's why I made the X-Files remark.
Whatever it hit cracked the engine block in half, which they point out is very unusual.
This is a weird, tragic story.
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To: Tedster
You mean there are more? Stranger than this?
Yipes.
To: Tedster
Thanks for taking a look and welcome to FreeRepublic. Something fairly substantial hit that airplane. What amazes me is that after an exhaustive search of the debris area, only parts of the Cessna, and maybe red paint and a piece of metal embedded in the wing from whatever hit it, were found. Also, the experienced pilot obviously saw something before impact.
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To: My Dog Likes Me
Someone cue the X-Files music. A piece of unidentifiable material lodged in the wing? The enging shattered in two? This reminds me of that footage of that fighter jet disintegrating into the wall of concrete that protects nuclear stuff. He hit something hard and it wasn't another plane. Freaky.
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posted on
04/16/2004 3:21:48 AM PDT
by
lawgirl
(In memory of Spot Fetcher Bush (1989-2004) Rest in Peace Faithful Friend)
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To: Battle Axe
Don't we have a data base of kinds of paint?...Do we have international types of paint? You're assuming it was "paint".
Best to think of it as "material".
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:27:06 PM PDT
by
okie01
(www.ArmorforCongress.com...because Congress isn't for the morally halt and the mentally lame.)
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To: Tedster
I'm wondering if our gov't is following cargo jets with UAV's and this is the resultant collision.
It is known that cargo jets (like the FedEx DC-10 in the story) are one of the most vunerable to terrorist use as the crew size is small and security is not the same as for passenger flights.
Using UAV's to follow jets requires less fatigue than using manned fighter jets.
I am familiar with the Valentich case. Very strange and given the communications in this case versus the communications in the Valentich case.
I am convinced that TWA 800 was a terrorist act covered up for political purposes (election year). I live in Williamsport, PA which is right next door to Montoursville, PA where so many high school kids lost their lives on a trip to France on TWA 800. Those families are still anguished to this day because the facts do not add up to the cause. They could understand terrorism, but the mechanical cause does not fit the facts as known. Their lives are a daily agony.
To: JennysCool
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.
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posted on
04/17/2004 7:28:48 AM PDT
by
hgro
To: null and void
Target drones are routinely painted red And are used quite frequently at Pensacola NAS, which is only 30 or 40 miles from Mobile Airport.
Pensacola drones are usually launched out over the gulf though, maybe one went astray and the Navy ain't fessin up?
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posted on
04/17/2004 7:38:52 AM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
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