Still No Sign of Missing Crop Duster Plane (en route to USAF base at Cape Canaveral from Bahamas )

Drudge Flash Update ^ | October 4, 2001 | Matt Drudge

[Driller]

Coast Guard aircraft searched for a thrid day Wednesday for a missing State Department plane used to spray crops during the drug war in Columbia.

US Coast Guard Petty Officer Robert Swanson said no signs of the plane had been found as of late Wednesday. The single engine plane, which carried only one pilot, took off early Monday from Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a dependent territory of the United Kingdom located southeast of the Bahamas.It was en route to Patrick Airforce Base, on Flordia's East Coast south of Cape Canaveral.

Swanson said two Coast Guard aircraft and a cutter were searching for the Ayres S2RHG-T65 Wednesday afternoon. He said a U.S. Air Force plane was expected to join them Wednesday evening.

The search area has expanded from an area of 120 miles southeast of Freeport, Grand Bahama to the entire outer Bahamas, Swanson said.

[DJ88]

Ummmm. Yeah. Can I say it out loud??? She's ridden on one before, so....;-)

[Patriotic Rich]

Any idea what the early symptons are?

[itwasntme]

I want a missile to explode in a camel's butt, just to make me feel better. ;-) I don't care how expensive the camel is.....;-)

OPERATION CAMEL TOE...
lol

[DJ88]

LOL!!!!!! ROFLMAO!!!!! I can't help it, I want SOMETHING to explode SOMEWHERE and I don't CARE who's CAMEL'S BUTT GETS IT.....;-)

[Clint Williams]

US Coast Guard Petty Officer Robert Swanson said no signs of the plane had been found as of late Wednesday.

Okay. I am ignorant of search methods, etc., when a plane disappears, and I know zip of the weather in the area. Any chance it's "just" underwater somewhere?

(I suspect that if it had been spreading anthrax post-disappearance, the casualty count even a few hours later would be higher than one. If it's higher than one by the time I send this, disregard this parenthetical remark.)

[Lady GOP]

And now the Anthrax case in Fla...hmmmmm

[newzjunkey]

Any update on the miss Florida HAZMAT truck story posted the same day as the plane went missing? It was out of Gainesville.

The truck and it's legal driver had gone missing on the 14th of Sept. The homing device stopped transmitting. He's left behind a young daughter and gave no indication to family he'd be going somewhere.

[slym]

Bump for updates to the cropduster and missing truck stories.

[WVNan]

Why South Florida? Where are the two largest concentrations of Jewish people in America? N.Y., South Fla.

[Clinton's a rapist]

I suspect that if it had been spreading anthrax post-disappearance, the casualty count even a few hours later would be higher than one.

Supposedly, the aerosol produced by a crop duster would be insufficiently fine to deliver the anthrax very effectively. It may well be that the terrorists have already shot their wad, and the casualties will be fairly low. We shall see.

[John Jamieson]

Terrorists were investigating crop dusters 40 miles south of Lantana. Maybe this guy wasn't a victim but a grower?

[jwalsh07]

Everything you want to know about Anthrax

As for the crop duster, my money says its at the bottom of the ocean. You would think maybe a person or two would notice a crop duster, wouldn't you?

[nicmarlo]

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