Without a Trace (Strange Case of missing 727 and pilot)

[RamboLiberal]

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/US/World/missing_plane_040419-1.html

Ben Charles Padilla, an aircraft mechanic, flight engineer and cargo pilot, traveled the world plying his trade for various private companies.

He'd often keep in touch with family members from faraway locales, so it was no surprise in May 2003 when he replied to an e-mail about his mother having a heart attack with news that he was in Africa refurbishing a plane and would contact her as soon as he could.

His family has not heard from him since, and the FBI believes the 51-year-old was aboard a Boeing 727 that took off without authorization from an airport in Angola on May 25 and promptly vanished. At the time, U.S. officials told ABCNEWS they suspected the plane was stolen to run drugs or guns, and some theorized it was crashed for insurance money.

Though there was fear that the former passenger plane, which the FBI says was reconfigured to carry diesel fuel, could be in the hands of terrorists eyeing a Sept. 11-style attack, there was no evidence to link it to terrorism.

[Mistress Quickly]

1. I thought they found that plane?

let me go look around...

nope, it was another plane that looked like it. Sorry.

[4dsc]

3. check this out..

http://www.deadparrots.net/archives/current_events/0404us_looking_for_missing_airliner.html

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. Is this possible? - someone tell me it is NOT?

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From the link you provided:

"A precisely guided crash using an airliner filled with explosives on the fragile island of la Palma could easily trigger a land slide that would in turn initiate a mega tsunami erasing within hours 80% of the East coast of United States."

Now THAT's scary . . .

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. while the danger of a tsunami from La Palma is real

I don't think anyone can say an airplane crash could trigger it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/mega_tsunami.shtml

[Turbineguy]

2. Fear! Terror!

Fear! Fear! Terror! Terror!

[teryang]

6. Invoking the privacy act?

This is a virtual admission that the government knows where is or at least that they knew at some point after his disappearence.

Working for a number of private air companies is consistent with agency employment (by contract).