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In reply to the discussion: Ideas like that will get you shot. [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)A viable political figure, and of riding in small planes.
JFK Jr - his plane goes down, with GPS signalling device. The local airport staffers in Cape Cod, (where John Jr, his wife and sister-in-law were to have landed), told other Kennedy family members that there was no flight plan for the plane, and they shouldn't expect him. (There was a flight plan.)
No one would go looking for that plane. No One! Then the next morning, Teddy called Bill Clinton at the WH, 7Am EST, and Bill got the Coast Guard involved.
However, they spent hours roaming around the ocean. Pilots on planes searching for JFK's Jr's plane were diverted far from the route the plane had been on. And remember - this was a decent and fully equipped aircraft, even equipped with a GPS signal!
Finally the plane was found, basically on the coast, on an approach to the airport.
Less than a decade later, Paul Wellstone's fully equipped plane, staffed by not one but two pilots, went down, right outside the approach to the Everett MN airfield where that plane was expected to land.
Although the weather was in the high thirties, with some light rain, the weather was presenting so little of a problem that the airfield manager got into his plane and went out looking for Wellstone's craft.
However, CIA-news media Talking Head, Wolf Blitzer (Who just happened to be in the area!) ran out onto the airfield and grabbed the microphone out of the hands of the local radio reporter, as she was explaining to the audience that weather was not a factor. Blitzer bellowed into that mike that the weather had brought the plane down.
The plane burned from the time after it crashed, around 11:15 Am, until almost 6Pm. I have shown the NTSB's charts and analysis to a friend who was an excellent airplane pilot - he was amazed that such an aircraft burned so long.
Remember, this plane had been in radio contact with the airport at the time it went down. But the air field staff lost track of it two minutes or so before it crashed. If weather was a factor, then the radio contact would not have been affected. If a flock of birds hit the plane's engine, then radio communication would not have been affected.
At the time of the crash, microwave power anomalies serious enough to affect at least one resident's garage door were reported. Prior to the crash, October 2003, many police departments were starting to have microwave transmitter capabilities of affecting speeding cars. It is plausible that our CIA and black op people have the ability to target small air crafts with microwave pulses, that zap out the electronics and send the plane into a tailspin.