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Rocky, What Happened?
allen griggs
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You are the most experienced pilot on the forum. What do you think happened to the airliner? Where is it?
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Are you referring to the flying squirrel?
Rocky Raab
Flew Viet Nam and afterwards...
The voice of NASA...
And a damn good writer in his own right.
But I will observe this: The planned flightpath took that plane over some of the most dense jungle on the planet. I've seen with my own eyes that a plane (or pieces of a plane) can disappear into such jungle without leaving a trace that's visible from above. The plane disappeared in the wee hours of the night, when villagers would be asleep. There is essentially zero visibility on the ground so a smoke plume even a mile or two away would likely never be seen - and smoke plumes are common enough not to mean anything anyway. Plus, there are few roads and no communications infrastructure. Nobody there is going to spend a day in an oxcart and not planting his rice to report what may have only been thunder and a lightning fire.