Fatal plane crash mystery

Mobile Register ^ | 04/14/04 | joe danborn

[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...

[null and void]

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...

[rrrod]

was hillary out on her red broom?

[null and void]

We should be so lucky.

[Erik Latranyi]

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.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

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.

[theFIRMbss]

>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?!

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

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.

[Erik Latranyi]

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.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Fair enough.

[flys4grins]

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...

[flys4grins]

Houston Center Radar was out that night, so they didn't have the "Big Picture".

[eastforker]

I don't find a pilot by that name, I did find a paul warren though. Could tom have been a nickname?

[leadpenny]

and I can't see where wake turbulence would be the cause...

And explain the impact with something?

Welcome to FR.

[southland]

I share your concern for TWA 800 cover up/

[leadpenny]

Just curious, enroute from Mobile to Montgomery it would look like Jacksonville ARTCC would be in control?

[Quix]

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.

[My Dog Likes Me]

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.

[snopercod]

Houston Center Radar was out that night

Very interesting.