Thread: Flight 370

Flight 19 all over again.

I almost pine for the good ole days when things were simpler like straight razor shaving. You know, plane goes down, massive debris field and go home folks it is all over.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

I almost pine for the good ole days when things were simpler like straight razor shaving. You know, plane goes down, massive debris field and go home folks it is all over.

Bob

They will find it,but I think it will be found someplace they never in thier dreams thought it would be.

In the good old days when a plane went down and it wasn't at an airport it usually wasn't found. Thus the mandate for ELT's on all aircraft with 2 seats or more. A plane with congress critters on board went down in Alaska. Everyone looked, called out the guard and military...to this day it still has not been found.

The joke is that so far all the modern electronic gizmos seem to have been turned off and the ones that weren't aren't being too specific about the planes whereabouts. Maybe we are back in the good ole days after all. Lets hope it has a better ending than the Alaskan adventure.

Bob

On October 25, 1999, a chartered Learjet 35 was scheduled to fly from Orlando, Florida to Dallas, Texas. Early in the flight the aircraft, which was cruising at altitude on autopilot, quickly lost cabin pressure. All on board were incapacitated due to hypoxia — a lack of oxygen. The aircraft failed to make the westward turn toward Dallas over north Florida. It continued flying over the southern and midwestern United States for almost four hours and 1,500 miles (2,400 km). The plane ran out of fuel and crashed into a field near Aberdeen, South Dakota after an uncontrolled descent.[1] The four passengers on board were golf star Payne Stewart, his agents, Van Ardan and Robert Fraley, and Bruce Borland, a highly regarded golf architect with the Jack Nicklaus golf course design company.

Because I make light of something, doesn't mean I take the subject lightly... So that's to say, this may be in poor taste but:

Leaving Facebook...

Small private aircraft crash all the time and vanish without a trace. Often times years later some hiker spots something and that's how they find them.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Small private aircraft crash all the time and vanish without a trace. Often times years later some hiker spots something and that's how they find them.

True Story:

Hunting in the Colorado High Country one year I found a car that had recently been Pushed/Driven down into a ravine, you could see that the plates had been Ripped off the vehicle.. I hiked in and got the VIN, made sure nobody was in there, and called it in to the County Sherriff when I had a signal again.. Her response made me giggle, "Thanks, we love hunting season, you guys find everything that has been missing for the past year or so"

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Small private aircraft crash all the time and vanish without a trace. Often times years later some hiker spots something and that's how they find them.

Yea, many incidents like that in our neck of the woods. You wouldn't believe how little evidence of a crash is visible from the air over a forested area. You virtually have to fly the same flight path as the crashed plane on the same heading it went in on to catch anything. Lakes may be slightly better if there is an oils slick.

Bob