[GRANGER]

If the story about the "stolen" 727 were true, we would have found it by now, and if we had found it, we would have destroyed it. There is no place on the Earth they could hide a 727, and there is no place on the Earth where we cannot put a team down on 12 hours notice or less. If all that happened, it will stay classified for quite some time, and so the "mystery" will continue.

[BallparkBoys]

I dont think they're saying that the plane is hiding someplace under a camo tarp. The 727-200 is a 70's plane and this one probably had 40,000 cycles on it by the time it was retired. These old planes are either cut up, put in the desert or shipped to third world countries. I dont think you'll find a whole lot of 777's or 737-800's at your local Sub-Saharan airline. I would think that these African countries fly a ton of 727's, DC-8's, 707's, even DC-3's - all the old ones. If they paint it in the colors of a local airline, there is the hiding place. What are we going to do, start looking at the serial numbers on the doorjam of each 727??? THAT's where its hiding - if in fact this story is correct. What's that saying about hiding things in plain view? If you want to know what they are looking for, go here: http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=N844AA&distinct_entry=true This is 6 pictures of this exact aircraft (N844AA) that have been taken in the last 2 years.