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Bamn!

Posted by mender on 6/23/2025, 14:50:17

My fighter of choice chilled

Where is Cokie Roberts' father's plane? nt

Posted by Austin Powerz on 6/23/2025, 15:05:21, in reply to "Bamn!"

Hmmmmmmmm?

nt ?

Posted by mender on 6/23/2025, 16:45:53, in reply to "Where is Cokie Roberts' father's plane? nt"

nm…

I wish the Air Force had not turned me down,
but on the other hand it is no longer 1943 -
aber meine Deutsche ist nicht gut.

NanoTesla. Musk's new compact car? Don't think so.

Posted by Austin Powerz on 6/23/2025, 18:36:42, in reply to "nt ?"

No text.

Now answer my question.

Where is Hale Boggs' & Nick Begich's plane?

Tick Tock.

rock tick

Posted by mender on 6/23/2025, 18:56:02, in reply to "NanoTesla. Musk's new compact car? Don't think so."

WTFKs
WYSFU?

ESAD

Posted by Austin Powerz on 6/23/2025, 19:10:03, in reply to "rock tick"

GFY.

nmt

Re: nt ?

Posted by Johnny Salt on 6/23/2025, 19:11:46, in reply to "nt ?"

The military doesn't want little men just for the benefits.

You have a theory???

Posted by Dara on 6/23/2025, 20:15:06, in reply to "NanoTesla. Musk's new compact car? Don't think so."

Share with the class please. Bringing up something I haven't wondered about in years.

I believe they developed wing ice and crashed.

Posted by Austin Powerz on 6/23/2025, 21:15:26, in reply to "You have a theory???"

Since the pilot had filed a VFR flight plan he was not reporting his progress or being tracked. That was a bad idea BTW since weather reports called for fog and icing conditions.

In all these years the plane has not been found, and since they were flying a coastal route in mid-October they should have been found. The snowpack was not that thick yet. Since they were not found immediately then they should have been found after the spring thaw or the after next spring thaw.

Since they haven't been found after 50 spring thaws during global warming, we can conclude they crashed in the water, likely through thin ice, and sank.

Thin ice would have kept buoyant wreckage hidden and unspotted until it was too late to associate it with the crash.

Thin ice usually develops in coastal Alaska in lakes in mid-October and a few weeks later in sea water. So I'd bet on a lake and probably a deep lake in the route.

If I were to be making a sonar search I'd start with Malaspina Lake. It's 145' deep and usually closed to netting. Too deep for sport divers to find the plane, too heavily regulated for fisherman to bother with, and iced over thinly just when the crash would have occurred. It's heavily stratified making a bow mounted sonar ineffective and side scans in 1972 were very primitive.

Today's tech could work but nobody would take on the job without a lot of funding and its likely no possible sponsor thinks the risk reward is sufficient to try.

Sounds very plausible to me n/t

Posted by Dara on 6/23/2025, 21:29:03, in reply to "I believe they developed wing ice and crashed. "

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