[My Dog Likes Me]

This is a very weird mishap. I wonder what happened?

(Can someone post the entire article here for me? I still haven't figured out how to do so...)

[leadpenny]

From the NTSB site:

HISTORY OF FLIGHT

On October 23, 2002, at 1945, central daylight time, a Cessna 208B, N76U, call sign Night Ship 282, registered to Atlantic Aero, Inc., and operated by Mid Atlantic Freight, Inc. collided in-flight with an unknown object at 3,000 feet MSL and descended uncontrolled into swampy water in the Big Bateau Bay in Spanish Fort, Alabama, shortly after takeoff from the Mobile Downtown Airport, in Mobile, Alabama. The cargo flight was operated under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 135, and instrument flight rules. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed and an IFR flight plan was filed. The commercial pilot sustained fatal injuries and the airplane was destroyed. The flight originated from the Mobile Downtown Airport, in Mobile, Alabama on October 23, 2002 at 1940

[leadpenny]

http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1081934216102960.xml

Try this link. I had to give them my zip code and year of birth before I could read the story, however.

[leadpenny]

A mystery!

[Boot Hill]

"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."

Ping for Santa Claus!

--Boot Hill

[Aeronaut]

[JennysCool]

Good evening, everyone!

[Waco]

Maybe a DEA/FED/GOV plane was "involved" and the feds ain't talking??

[rabidralph]

You can search for lots of aviation info, including NTSB reports
at Landings dot com. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Search. Here is the NTSB search feature.

[Alas Babylon!]

This is your neck o' the woods. I don't remember even hearing about this. Do you?

[genefromjersey]

Off hand, I'd say a Big-ass Bird.

[VOA]

bump

[Cold Heat]

HMMMMMMMMMMMM............Red stuff?????

Just don't know?

[ampat]

The Coast Guard has an air training base out of the mobile airport. They have red stripes on their planes and helos. (Actually international orange, but looks kinda red).

[jrushing]

I lived near Spanish Fort from 1993 thru 95 & I once read in the newspaper that the Navy test fires cruise missiles from the Gulf which fly over that area & return to the Gulf.

[mikegi]

Very weird. Not being a pilot, I have a hard time understanding where on the plane the red "transfer" marks were found. Can someone give me a quick overview of their distribution? From what I can glean from the report, the marks are mainly on the left side but there is the "Top of right elevator adjacent to outboard hinge" marking. Any significance to the location of the markings?

The pilot's final transmission is "I needed to deviate...". Why the past tense? Is he asking permission to deviate from his flight plan because of the emergency?

[familyofman]

How close is the crash site to Arkansas?

[VadeRetro]

Maybe it hit the Columbian Express drug flight to Mena.

[lawgirl]

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.

[Bon mots]

Ping

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Red streaks? Anyone missing a skydiver?