Posted on 03/20/2014 7:09:01 PM PDT by Kartographer
Some 83 aircraft have been declared missing since 1948
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I am also frequently forced to communicate with twits myself.
http://pittsburgh.about.com/od/transportation/a/b25_bomber.htm
>>On January 31, 1956, a Mitchell B-25 bomber, on a flight from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada to Olmstead Air Force Base in Harrisburg, crashed in the Monongahela River (locally known as the “Mon”), just outside of Pittsburgh. The crew of 6 survived the crash, but two were later claimed by the icy waters of the Mon river.
What happened over the next two weeks fueled one of Pittsburgh’s greatest unsolved mysteries
What became of the B-25 bomber?
In the two weeks following the crash, a search for the plane was conducted, but no trace of the B-25 was ever found. Theories about the plane’s disappearance are plentiful, and are still discussed throughout Pittsburgh.
Some think the plane was carrying a secret cargo of nuclear weapons, nerve gas, Mafia money, or even Howard Hughes. Eyewitness accounts sporadically surface. The story I remember being told as a child was “Hundreds of soldiers descended to the crash site and closed the river. They guarded the banks of the river while barges came in and pulled the bomber to the surface. The plane was then offloaded to railroad cars, where it was taken to one of the local steel mills and melted down”. Variations on these stories include the plane being chopped up on shore and trucked away, threats to eyewitnesses on shore, even the story of a mysterious ‘7th man’ that was pulled from the river.
If it's missing the Ben Charles Padilla 727-223 (Tail # N844AA) flight out of Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport in Angola on May 25, 2003...
...then what else did Bloomberg overlook?
(also lost on that flight was John Mikel Mutantu)
Lots of small planes and boats disappear in the great lakes.
...then what else did Bloomberg overlook?
The map is restricted to "planes capable of carrying 14 or more passengers". It doesn't appear any air cargo flights were included.
The Angolan 727 had been re-fitted as a cargo plane, to haul diesel fuel.
That was because of a black hole on Michigan Avenue. Somebody on CNN created the connection last night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeWeheK9uEA
Pardon, but it clearly states
The list includes planes capable of carrying more than 14 passengers and where no trace bodies or debris has ever been found.I stand by my assertion about Bloomberg's lousy attention to detail.
And I repeat 'worthless': There are only 5 flights named with any information about the flight at all besides date lost, souls lost and flight origin/destination...horribly lazy on Bloomberg's part. Pathetic is more apt.
Wasn't there some major issue going on with the A-6's about that time that went on several months? I know we lost several of them close into the ship usually on take off. I can't remember what it was doing it though I just remember there was a problem.
Israel, are you listening?
Israel said that this disappearance had Iran's fingerprints all over it. And they said they are taking measures now to prevent such a plane from getting through to them.
I had an old pilot tell me that all the pre jet plane disappearances are most likely a combination of aviation gasoline vapors and lightning.
Best comment in a long time... Well spoken.
Wasn’t there another C133 that disappeared on the same route back then?
I have seen the one at the Pima Air Museum, looks like a 130 on steroids.
Maybe, I don’t know. I worked on Corsairs, so I wasn’t that tuned in. We did lose another A-6 about a year before that.
The Intruder busted its hook off when it caught the wire during darkened ship exercises, and slowed down too much and the crew ejected.
I watched that plane lumber by me less than 50 feet away (I was on the bow) climb slowly out in front of the ship, its shape silhouetted against the stars, then slowly fall tail first, twisting and inverting to disappear in a circle of white foam a few hundred yards in front of the ship. I watched in horror saying over and over to myself Those guys better eject...come on...get out...eject...EJECT! and they never did.
I was dumbstruck, then the white lights on the ship came on as the air boss said over the 1MC Plane in the water! When I looked back, I saw two chutes come down, one went into the water just off the port quarter, and the other landed on the side of a E-2 Hawkeye on the deck. In all the noise of the plane hitting the deck and the throttles being pushed to full military, I never heard the bang of the seats.
It was one of the most startling and amazing things I have ever seen in my life. I was all by myself up on the bow...there was nobody else up there and I had a ringside seat to that plane’s final moments. I felt like I was the only witness to that, even though I am sure everyone up in the island saw it better than me. I immediately ran all the way back to my line shack and burst in all googly-eyed, exclaiming to everyone “You won’t believe what I just saw!”
Funny thing is, for years, it somehow got stuck in my head that it was an F14 I saw go down. It was only in the last few years that did a search to find out specifically what date it happened on, and was chagrined to find it was an A-6, not an F-14. It was odd to have my mind play that trick on me.
BookMark
Great info- thanks for posting.
If the 'Triangle' truly represented any greater risk, there would be an additional surcharge for any operating in that area. Of course, there is not.
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