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520 Pounds of Cocaine in Crash (Wheeling, WV)
The Intelligencer & Wheeling News Register ^
| 21Dec04
| Justin D. Anderson
Posted on 12/21/2004 1:51:46 AM PST by leadpenny
WHEELING - More than a quarter-ton of packaged cocaine was reportedly seized from the wreckage of a twin-engine aircraft that crashed near the Wheeling-Ohio County Airport over the weekend.
Law enforcement officials are searching for the alleged pilot of the Piper Aerostar aircraft, who they identified as Eugene Nicholas Cobbs, no age listed, of Los Angeles. The initial investigation of the abandoned aircraft Sunday yielded around 327 pounds of cocaine stowed in the passenger seating area.
Additional cocaine reportedly was found Monday during the Federal Aviation Administration's investigation hidden in the nose cone of the aircraft, bringing the total weight of the cocaine seized by the Brooke County Sheriff's Department to around 520 pounds. One of the packages of cocaine was reportedly found wrapped as a Christmas gift.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: cocaine; planecrash; wodlist
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posted on
12/21/2004 1:51:46 AM PST
by
leadpenny
To: leadpenny
Somebody forgot his weight and Balance calculations.
Perhaps one too many snorts before take off...
2
posted on
12/21/2004 1:55:19 AM PST
by
konaice
To: konaice
The story reads like a movie script. A comedy movie script.
3
posted on
12/21/2004 1:57:13 AM PST
by
leadpenny
To: leadpenny
Law enforcement officials are searching for the alleged pilot of the Piper Aerostar aircraft, who they identified as Eugene Nicholas Cobbs Betcha some other more unsavory types are searching for him, too!
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posted on
12/21/2004 2:05:51 AM PST
by
JennysCool
(Prayers up 24/7 for Allegra's safe return.)
To: JennysCool
"Boss, I got good news and bad news. We made it to Wheeling, but we didn't land at the airport."
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posted on
12/21/2004 2:08:23 AM PST
by
leadpenny
To: leadpenny
alleged pilot Just wondering, how could one be an "alleged pilot"? The way they word this stuff cracks (no pun intended) me up.
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posted on
12/21/2004 2:10:19 AM PST
by
LisaMalia
(Merry CHRISTmas!)
To: leadpenny
hidden in the nose cone of the aircraft How appropriate!
7
posted on
12/21/2004 2:12:26 AM PST
by
LisaMalia
(Merry CHRISTmas!)
To: konaice
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posted on
12/21/2004 2:23:42 AM PST
by
annyokie
(If the shoe fits, put 'em both on!)
To: LisaMalia; leadpenny; Aeronaut; B4Ranch; shaggy eel
<< alleged pilot
Just wondering, how could one be an "alleged pilot?" >>
Stand in any of the world's airport's "fingers" long enough and around 85% of the pilot-costumed persons who walk by to and fro' their various employers' aircraft and who sit in the pointy bit at the front in those positions once reserved for Pilots, will fit that description to a "T."
These are the ones who, after pushback and once having set the aeroplane in motion at the gate, will, unless it just killed and/or otherwise incapacitated them, spend the rest of the leg reacting to what it just did.
The other 15% -- the Pilots, that is -- will have spent or be on their way to spend their working day ahead of the aircraft, anticipating and directing its every move.
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posted on
12/21/2004 2:42:14 AM PST
by
Brian Allen
(Peking Predators: 89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89 -- FRom Hongkong)
To: Brian Allen; Tijeras_Slim; FireTrack; Pukin Dog; citabria; B Knotts; kilowhskey; cyphergirl; ...
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posted on
12/21/2004 2:45:36 AM PST
by
Aeronaut
(May all the feckless become fecked.)
To: Brian Allen; Tijeras_Slim; FireTrack; Pukin Dog; citabria; B Knotts; kilowhskey; cyphergirl; ...
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posted on
12/21/2004 2:45:39 AM PST
by
Aeronaut
(May all the feckless become fecked.)
To: Aeronaut
12
posted on
12/21/2004 2:46:00 AM PST
by
Aeronaut
(May all the feckless become fecked.)
To: leadpenny
One of the packages of cocaine was reportedly found wrapped as a Christmas gift.
The gift that keeps on giving? Or was this the special gift for that man that has everything?
13
posted on
12/21/2004 2:47:43 AM PST
by
doosee
To: LisaMalia
Because the guy listed as the owner or person who filed flight plan may not be the guy who crashed the plane.
14
posted on
12/21/2004 2:52:40 AM PST
by
durasell
(Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
To: Brian Allen
These are the ones who, after pushback and once having set the aeroplane in motion at the gate, will, unless it just killed and/or otherwise incapacitated them, spend the rest of the leg reacting to what it just did. That's a scary thought!
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posted on
12/21/2004 2:53:52 AM PST
by
LisaMalia
(Merry CHRISTmas!)
To: LisaMalia
<< That's a scary thought! >>
That's the scary TRUTH.
Merry Christmas!
16
posted on
12/21/2004 2:59:33 AM PST
by
Brian Allen
(Peking Predators: 89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89-89 -- FRom Hongkong)
To: Brian Allen
That's the scary TRUTH.
Yes, it is!
That put me in mind of Kennedy.
He got his ticket right up the road from me, and he was a typical product of the instruction mills. Looked very spiffy.
On another board, I had posted the reasons that led to the death of Kennedy and his passengers
.
A left Coast liberal lawyer (that just rolls of the tongue) replied that he had looked up the accident report and wrote that Kennedy was legal to fly. (no IMC forecast)
My reply? "Art, he's still dead."
Legal to fly, indeed. Not anymore...
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posted on
12/21/2004 3:25:37 AM PST
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: leadpenny
18
posted on
12/21/2004 3:25:47 AM PST
by
KMC1
To: Brian Allen; quidam
Authority! Make the aircraft do what you want it to.
Remember quidam's "Coke is it..." thread? I can't find it right at the moment, but there is this: If 'Coke is it'....
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posted on
12/21/2004 3:44:42 AM PST
by
snopercod
(Bigger government means clinton won. Less freedom means Osama won. Get it?)
To: Brian Allen
Too many sheeple go through life in the same manner.
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posted on
12/21/2004 4:01:38 AM PST
by
B4Ranch
(((The lack of alcohol in my coffee forces me to see reality!)))
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