Plane Crashes

The Russian Investigative Committee has announced that bad weather conditions, jet malfunction, and poor professional skills of those involved are among the main version of what caused the tragedy.

And a terrorist attack is not possible? A bomb, for example. The Russians are very discret about the subject of terrorist attacks. Plus, how come a poor professional skill can produce a fire like that?
 
Regarding the jet that crash landed in Jacksonville, FL and slid into the St. Johns river, although there were no human fatalities, today's paper reports: "Navy divers on Sunday began recovering containers holding the corpses of cats and dogs that drowned in the forward cargo area of the plane."

I found this on the net:
Missing Pets Involved in Jacksonville Plane Crash Found, Says US Navy

U.S. military officers have found pets that went missing after a chartered jet crashed in northern Florida on May 3.

The Naval Air Station (NAS) at Jacksonville confirmed that the bodies of a dog and two cats owned by a military family were recovered from the aircraft floating on St. Johns River.

“Every possible avenue to rescue these animals was pursued following the incident. One animal that traveled in the cabin was safely removed by its owner,” NAS Jacksonville said in a Facebook post dated May 5.

The station described the recovery effort as a “sad task” conducted in the “most dignified way possible with the base veterinarian on site to ensure all protocols were followed.”

“The animals will be cremated through a local company,” NAS Jacksonville said.

The station was unable to rescue the animals earlier because it could not guarantee the safety of rescue crew members.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) sent a team of investigators to inspect the partially submerged aircraft. Rescuers searched in the cargo area but saw no crates and heard no animal noises. They also did not see any pet carriers above water.

The station confirmed that all humans aboard the plane had walked away from the crash without critical injuries, with only a 3-month-old baby being sent to hospital as a precaution.

“I think it is a miracle,” NAS Jacksonville Captain Michael Connor told AP. “We could be talking about a different story this evening.”

Investigators will continue to examine the aircraft for any potential environmental and human factors that could have caused the plane to roll into the river. One factor, which has been widely reported, is that the pavement on the runway was not grooved.

Additional details:

The wire service newspaper article contained questioning regarding the pilots' request to a change of runway:

The pilots on the Miami Air International plane requested the change to air traffic controllers shortly before landing at Naval Air Station Jacksonville Friday night.

The 9,000-foot-long runway where the Boeing 737 landed was essentially limited to 7,800 feet since there was a wire barrier set up to recover Navy aircraft in instances they couldn’t land on a carrier during training, said Bruce Landsberg, vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board.

We don’t know what they were thinking or why they made that choice,” Landsberg said at a news conference. “That will be one of the things we look to find out.”

Landsberg didn’t elaborate on the significance of the runway change, but said it would be a focus of investigation.

NTSB investigators said they hope a cockpit voice recorder helps them answer that question, but they have been unable to recover it yet since the part of the plane where it’s located is still underwater in the St. Johns River. Investigators also plan to interview the pilots, Landsberg said.

Investigators have retrieved the flight data recorder.

Landsberg said the plane recently had been in maintenance, and logs showed a left-hand thrust reverser that was inoperative.

Thrust reversers are used to divert thrust from the engine, but they typically aren’t used in calculating a plane’s performance, Landsberg said.

According to a Purdue University College of Engineering description , reverse thrust can be used to help an aircraft come to a stop.

“We will be looking very carefully at the maintenance of the aircraft in the several weeks prior,” Landsberg said.


Obviously, the loss of pets doesn't begin to compare to the loss of life in the most recent jet crash in Moscow, but what a tragic end for those caged animals. Death by drowning or the firey deaths of the 41 passengers in the Moscow crash - so much grief for these and the previously reported crashes. Interesting the pictures of airplane debris, including engine parts, on the ground surrounding the previous crashes, yet how many Americans still think the 911 crashes that contained no such parts were exactly as reported. Readers here are well aware of the players involved in these deceptions. And more regarding Boeing:

Boeing didn't tell airlines that safety alert wasn't on

Boeing says it didn't tell pilots and airlines that a safety alert on its 737 Max jets was not working until after one of the planes crashed in Indonesia last year.

The safety alert, called an "angle of attack" (AOA) indicator, tells pilots if a sensor is transmitting bad data. It was designed to warn pilots about the kind of sensor malfunction that occurred in the crash in Indonesia and another five months later in Ethiopia. It had been operational in previous versions of the 737, but was switched off in the 737 Max.

Boeing said Sunday that the planes could be flown safely without the alert, but said it will be included in the 737 Max before the planes are flown again.


How nice that Boeing will include the safety alert on the 737 Max before those planes fly again. Life here in the Twilight Zone is getting more and more nutzoid!

Tough news morning with not only the airplane crash stories but this as well:
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ASOS billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen today said an emotional farewell to his three children who were killed in the Easter Sunday terror attack in Sri Lanka.

The tycoon wrapped his arms around his wife Anne and their surviving daughter Astrid as the three white coffins draped with flowers and balloons were carried into Aarhus cathedral in Denmark.


Guess we're in for a long run of these kind of tragedies. :-(
 
And a terrorist attack is not possible? A bomb, for example. The Russians are very discret about the subject of terrorist attacks. Plus, how come a poor professional skill can produce a fire like that?
В данном случае как раз действия пилотов вызывают вопросы. При первом касании земли самолет подпрыгнул и уже при втором касании подломились стойки шасси, самолет упал на двигатели и начался пожар. Посмотрите, в начале этого ролика все это видно хорошо. Другой вопрос: могли ли пилоты сработать по другому в той конкретной ситуации, ведь на борту были какие то неполадки?


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In this case, just the actions of the pilots raise questions. At the first touch of the ground, the plane jumped up and at the second touch the landing gear broke down, the plane fell on the engines and a fire began. Look, at the beginning of this video all this can be seen well. Another question: could the pilots work differently in that particular situation, because on Board there were some problems?
Почему аварийная посадка SSJ-100 обернулась катастрофой
 
And a terrorist attack is not possible? A bomb, for example. The Russians are very discret about the subject of terrorist attacks. Plus, how come a poor professional skill can produce a fire like that?
In this case, just the actions of the pilots raise questions. At the first touch of the ground, the plane jumped up and at the second touch the landing gear broke down, the plane fell on the engines and a fire began. Look, at the beginning of this video all this can be seen well. Another question: could the pilots work differently in that particular situation, because on Board there were some problems?

If one wants to entertain conspiracy theory speculation, maybe not so much the pilots but what caused the problem in the first place - lightning has been advanced as the cause. Now, consider that the Cs have made clear that STO/STS battle manifests as weather - so, there's that. But another thought crossed my mind - directed energy beam or whatever from weaponized space satellite? It's for sure the Deep State/satanic globalists are in a death match with Putin/Russia. Would they go so far as to utilize space weaponry to carry out an attack under the guise of say lightning? Of course, could just be that our more and more electrically-charged atmosphere which is undeniably producing massive amounts of lightning strikes with every storm, may indeed be the explanation for this tragic crash. Additionally, didn't the presumed lightning strike damage components of the jet in such a way that normal control by the pilots wasn't possible? This article brings up some further questionable points:

Moscow plane fire: reports claim jet was struck by lightning

Russian authorities have said the deadly fire onboard an Aeroflot passenger jet was probably caused by pilot error, a technical malfunction or “adverse weather conditions”, apparently referring to reports that lightning struck the plane after takeoff.
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The country’s transport minister has said there is no reason to ground the fleet of Sukhoi aircraft, which is the leading civilian passenger jet developed in Russia since the days of the Soviet Union. The jet makes up one-fifth of the fleet at Aeroflot, the national carrier.

Regional carrier Yamal Airlines, the country’s second biggest operator of the Superjet after Aeroflot, said on Monday it was cancelling its planned purchase of 10 of the planes, but cited high servicing costs, not safety concerns.
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Tatyana Kasatkina, a flight attendant who forcibly evacuated passengers, told the Russian news website Baza: “You could see the fire [outside]. People were yelling that we’re burning but there was no fire inside of the plane […] I pushed the door open with my leg and grabbed the passengers so that they didn’t delay during the evacuation. I grabbed them by the collar.”

Some passengers were shown in footage of the evacuation carrying luggage, including large backpacks and rolling suitcases, that they had apparently retrieved from overhead cabins.

The pictures raised questions in Russian media of whether the rush to retrieve hand luggage had put lives at risk by slowing the evacuation from the burning plane. Investigators have said they would review the behaviour of pilots and flight crew during the accident, but have not indicated that the evacuation was in any way mishandled.

Crew members said it was hit by hail while flying through clouds near Sheremetyevo airport, before apparently being struck by lightning.

“A bright flash and a clap,” the pilot Denis Yevdokimov said, describing the alleged lightning strike. The plane lost all communications and its electronic flight system failed, he said.

Video of the landing showed the plane bouncing along the tarmac before bursting into flames. The tail section became consumed by fire, discharging thick, black smoke as passengers were evacuated using emergency slides. Fire engines sped towards the blaze as some passengers were seen fleeing across the tarmac in tears. Some were carrying luggage they had apparently retrieved from overhead cabins.
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Reports have indicated most of those killed were in the tail section. A seating chart showed all but one of the passengers killed were seated behind row 10. It took firefighters more than an hour to reach passengers in the tail section.


Well, thank god the survivors were able to retrieve their luggage!!! :mad:
 
Regarding the jet that crash landed in Jacksonville, FL and slid into the St. Johns river, although there were no human fatalities, today's paper reports: "Navy divers on Sunday began recovering containers holding the corpses of cats and dogs that drowned in the forward cargo area of the plane."

Thrust reverser 'not working' on plane that crashed in river in Florida
Thrust reverser 'not working' on plane that crashed in river in Florida

May 6, 2019 - A feature that helps aircraft slow down on landing was broken on a Boeing 737 that skidded into a river in Florida, a top transportation safety official said on Sunday (May 5).

The plane carrying 143 people slid off the runway after a hard landing last Saturday at a naval air station in Jacksonville during a lightning storm.

Police said 21 people were taken to hospital with minor injuries, but no fatalities or critical injuries were reported.

Transport safety officials said one of the thrust reversers, which are supposed to help to slow the aircraft down, was not working.

"The aircraft had been in maintenance and the maintenance log noted that the left-hand thrust reverser was inoperative," Mr Bruce Landsberg, vice-chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, told reporters on Sunday.

He said investigators would be examining the maintenance of the aircraft in the weeks prior to the accident "and the condition of the thrust reversers will obviously be of interest".

The pilot also requested a change of runway, landing on one air traffic control advised had naval equipment on it, reducing the available runway length by 365m, Mr Landsberg said.

"We don't know what they were thinking or why they made that choice. That will be one of the things we look to find out, as we go through the cockpit voice recorder," he said.

The flight data recorder had been recovered, but the cockpit voice recorder remained underwater in the tail of the aircraft.

"When we recover it, (it) will give us much more information on what the crew was thinking," he said.

Thunderstorms and lightning have been hampering efforts to retrieve the plane fuselage.

The navy had arranged for divers to recover several pets which are believed to have drowned in the cargo hold, he said.

Booms had also been set up to contain jet fuel spilling into the St Johns River.

Passengers on the flight from the US base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to Jacksonville included military personnel and family members.

Passengers clambered across the wings of the partially submerged plane before being transported to shore in inflatable boats.

"We couldn't tell where we were, a river or an ocean. There was rain coming down. There was lightning and thunder. We stood on that wing for a significant period of time," Ms Cheryl Bormann, a defence attorney who was on board the flight, told CNN.

The plane involved was a Boeing 737-800, in operation for 18 years, according to the FlightRadar24 website.

US aerospace giant Boeing is under scrutiny following two crashes that killed a total of 346 passengers and crew and grounded its newer 737 Max planes worldwide.

Both a Lion Air crash in Indonesia in October and March's Ethiopian Airlines crash outside Addis Ababa occurred shortly after takeoff.

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No survivors found in Mexico crash of jet carrying 13 people
No survivors found in Mexico crash of jet carrying 13 people

May6, 2019 - All 13 people aboard were killed when a private jet crashed between the U.S. city of Las Vegas and Monterrey in northern Mexico, authorities said on Monday.

The wreckage of the plane was found via aerial surveillance in a remote mountainous zone in the northern municipality of Ocampo, the government of Coahuila state said in a statement.

A photograph published on local television network Milenio showed what it said were the burnt remnants of the plane, broken into pieces, spread over charred earth.

The Coahuila government said the flight plan listed 13 people on board. It said no survivors were found.

Mexican media reported that the passengers had been to a boxing match between Mexican boxer Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and U.S. fighter Daniel Jacobs in Las Vegas on Saturday.

The nationalities of the victims were not immediately clear. The surnames of the three crew and 10 passengers published by the Coahuila government were all Hispanic.

The victims were aged between 57 and 19, according to a version of the passenger list published in Mexican media.

Newspaper Diario de Yucatan said on its website that among the victims were 55-year-old businessman Luis Octavio Reyes Dominguez, his wife, and their three children.

In a statement, Canada's Bombardier Inc identified the jet as a Challenger 601 and said the plane had gone missing about 150 nautical miles from the northern Mexican city of Monclova.

Expressing its condolences to the victims, the company said it had been in touch with Canada's transportation safety board and would work with the investigating authorities.

Mexican broadcaster Televisa reported the twin-engine jet lost contact on Sunday with air traffic controllers sometime after 5:20 p.m. local time (2220 GMT) as the pilot descended to avoid a storm.

Francisco Martinez, an emergency services official in Coahuila, told Milenio recent adverse weather conditions would form part of th investigation into the crash. However, he stopped short of saying weather had caused it.
 
  • The downed plane was located in a remote mountainous area in Ocampo
  • Three crew members and 10 passengers were on board at the time of the crash
  • 'There were no survivors seen,' officials confirmed
  • The plane that vanished from radar was a Bombardier Challenger 601
  • Group were reportedly on the way home from watching boxer Canelo Alvarez
A private jet carrying boxing fans crashed in Mexico after leaving Las Vegas on Sunday leaving 13 people, including several members of the same family, feared dead.

An air search located the downed plane in a remote mountainous area in the municipality of Ocampo on Monday, the Coahuila state government said in a statement.

Three crew members and 10 passengers were on board at the time of the crash. 'There were no survivors seen,' officials confirmed.

The Bombardier Challenger 601 left Las Vegas Sunday afternoon and had been expected Sunday evening in Monterrey, but never arrived.


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This image appears to show the wreckage of the crash in which 13 people are feared dead after their plane left Las Vegas Sunday afternoon. The jet had been expected Sunday evening in Monterrey, but never arrived

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The plane was registered to Utah-based TVPX, listed as an insurance, customs and trust company. The company declined to comment on who was operating the plane.

The aircraft appears to have lost contact Sunday evening, around two hours after take off.
Local reports say there was a strong storm in the area at the time of the crash.
A flight plan for the jet reveals the names of 13 people who were on board, reports Mercury News.
Officials confirmed none of the people on board survived.
CREW
Pilot Juan Jose Aguilar Talavera, 45
Crew member Luis Ovidio Gonzalez Flores, 29
PASSENGERS
Adriana Monserrat Mejia Sanchez, 29
Luis Octavio Reyes Dominguez, 54
Loyda Liliana Luna Larrosa, 49
Jade Paola Reyes Luna, 26
Guillermo Octavio Reyes Luna, 23
Frida Alejandrina Reyes Luna, 19
Ramon Amauri Vela, 57
Martha Isabel Garcia Lagunes, 43
Gary Amauri Vela Garcia, 19
Manuel Alejandro Sepulveda Gonzalez, 25
Monica Leticia Salinas Trevino, 22

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A Radio Centro correspondent said: “The Secretariat of Public Security of Coahuila and authorities of Nuevo Leon have begun searches for the private Jet Bombardier Challenger 601 plane, registration N601VH, that flew from Las Vegas to Monterrey, with which contact was lost on Sunday afternoon.”
 
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No mention of the NV air base connections. Somthing smells fishy! Is Mike Pence part of the Deep State?

"Juanito" the pilot of the plane in Coahuila would have washed money and worked for "El Chapo" Guzmán.

Juan José Aguilar Talavera, pilot driving the plane that fell on Coahuila this Sunday, would have worked for capo Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, currently a prisoner in the United States.

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According to Milenio, Juan José had military training and had problems with the judiciary due to issues related to the transfer of drugs.

In 2006, when he was only 31 years old, he was arrested when he arrived at the Tijuana airport in Baja California, for allegedly belonging to a narcopilot cell that worked for the Sinaloa Cartel, accused of money laundering, drug trafficking and having introduced to the country to five undocumented Colombian citizens.

Everything happened on April 17 of that year, when the Attorney General's Office (PGR) completed the arrest warrant against eleven people allegedly engaged in the transportation and distribution of narcotics of the criminal organization led by El Chapo.

Among the people that Juan José Aguilar Talavera and his brother Miguel Israel, 27, moved, was Diana Lorena Toro Díaz, bulletin by the US Department of the Treasury as financial operator of the Sinaloa Cartel and the network headed by Alejandro Flores Cacho, owner of several airlines used for drug trafficking.

In 2011, five years after his arrest, Juan José was flying again, for which he was entrusted to remove Saadi Gaddafi from Libya, the son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, to move him to Mexico and hide him in a villa in Nayarit.

When the pilot learned of the purpose of the trip, organized by two Canadian businessmen, he refused to carry it out and did not face charges, according to a Seido report.

However, the background of Captain Juanito, as he was known in the world of pilots, is not the only irregular element that emerged after the plane crash.

The airline of the damaged plane belongs to the company TVPX Aircraft Solutions of which it does not exist in concrete terms, but they are legal.

This company has the legal protection constituted in Utah, which allows foreigners to own aircraft in the United States anonymously.

According to Milenio, the owners of the collapsed unit are originally from Edomex, but have confidentiality contracts signed by the consortium.




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A Biman Airlines' Bombardier Dash-8 aircraft has skidded off the runway at Myanmar's Yangon International Airport, losing its wings and breaking into three parts. Pilots were attempting to land as the accident occurred.

Although conflicting reports exist, a Biman Airlines spokesman told Bangladeshi news site BDnews that four of the 33 people on board were injured, including the pilot.

Photos shared on social media show the extent of the wreck



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A Bombardier Q400 aircraft in Biman Bangladesh Airlines livery

A Biman Airlines' Bombardier Dash-8 aircraft has skidded off the runway at Myanmar's Yangon International Airport, losing its wings and breaking into three parts. Pilots were attempting to land as the accident occurred.

Although conflicting reports exist, a Biman Airlines spokesman told Bangladeshi news site BDnews that four of the 33 people on board were injured, including the pilot.

Photos shared on social media show the extent of the wreck.

The plane was landing at Yangon Airport when the accident took place, after flying from Bangladesh's Dhaka-Srahjalal International Airport. Weather conditions were poor, and a Biman airlines spokesman told the Daily Star that this led to the crash.

The plane belonged to Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the flag carrier of Bangladesh. Aside from an attempted hijacking in February, the airline has not suffered any accidents or safety incidents in over a decade.

Yangon Airport has been closed following the crash, and incoming flights have been redirected.

The accident comes three days after a Sukhoi Superjet-100 crash landed at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport and burst into a fireball. The hard landing and ensuing blaze killed 41 of the 78 people on board.
 
This verifies nothing of my rambling's. The article is well done and from good sources. I think it was a gun running operation.
For any and all point's of intentional conflict's for the Deep State. Like Barry Seal with the Bush and Clinton cartel.

Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Captain Juan Jose Aguilar Talavera, a military training pilot who commanded the plane that landed on Sunday in Coahuila with 12 other people on board, had a notorious record worthy of a detective novel.

In 2006 he was arrested for allegedly being part of a narcopilot cell at the service of the Sinaloa cartel, which was accused of having introduced Colombian drug traffickers into the country, while in 2011 he piloted the plane in which he tried to bring the dictator's son Libyan Muammar Gaddafi to Mexico.

Among other crimes, Aguilar Talavera and 10 others were indicted in 2006 for allegedly participating in logistics for the introduction of a shipment of 5.5 tons of cocaine in a DC-9 aircraft seized in Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, in April of that same year. year, unlawful for which the Venezuelan Miguel Vicente Vázquez was sentenced to 17 years in prison.

The case uncovered a network of aerial transfers of cocaine from Africa and South America to Mexico and was one of the highlights in the administration of Vicente Fox, but even when he was informed at the time that he would be investigated by the case, the legal destination of Aguilar Talavera and if he received any sentence for that process, there are no public records.

What is known is that only five years after the Ciudad del Carmen affair, he was flying again: in 2011 he piloted the Hawker 800, which, in an almost film worthy operation, had the mission of extracting Saadi Gaddafi from Libya to move him to Mexico, where he would hide in a villa in Nayarit.

When he learned the real reason for the trip (organized by two Canadian businessmen), Aguilar Talavera refused to fly from Kosovo to the Libyan desert, according to testimonies collected by the then Deputy Attorney General for Specialized Investigation in Organized Crime, before which he had to appear. Since the operation was never carried out, he did not face charges.

The background of Captain Juanito, as he was known in the world of pilots, is not the only irregular element that comes to light after the accident.

The airline to which the crashed airplane belongs - TVPX Aircraft Solutions - does not exist in concrete terms, although it does exist legally. It is a shell company legally constituted in Utah that provides services to foreigners so that they can anonymously own an aircraft in the United States, where the law does not allow citizens of other countries to offer air transportation services. Sources consulted by MILENIO confirmed that the owners of the aircraft are from the State of Mexico, but are shielded under confidentiality contracts signed with the US consortium.

As for the allegedly criminal activities of Aguilar Talavera, he and his brother, Miguel, were taken to be detained by elements of the Federal Police at the Tijuana airport on April 17, 2006, accused of transferring undocumented immigrants, Money laundering and drug transfer. The notes of the time narrate that they were stopped after landing in a private aircraft in which five Colombian citizens were traveling, one of them wanted by the DEA.

The key lay in his passenger manifesto. Among the people that the Aguilar Talavera brothers were transferring that day was Diana Lorena Toro Díaz, credited by the US Treasury Department as the financial operator of the Sinaloa cartel and the network headed by Alejandro Flores Cacho, owner of several airlines used to transfer drugs, such as LuzAair SA de CV. She, the Aguilar Talavera brothers and the rest of the Colombians received a formal prison order for this and the case of Ciudad del Carmen three months later.

"A federal judge decreed the formal imprisonment of 11 people - including five Colombians - who are allegedly part of a cell of the Sinaloa cartel, and which are related to the shipment of 5.5 tons of cocaine seized last April in the Ciudad del Carmen airport, Campeche, "newspaper El Universal reported on July 27, 2006.

US-sponsored air traffic operation has had global reach
Operación de tráfico aéreo de drogas patrocinada por los EEUU ha tenido alcance global
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Aircraft linked to "Jaguar Maya" introduced tons of cocaine to Africa - port of entry to the European market
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The ongoing investigation into the Gulfstream II jet that crashed in Mexico in 2007 with a shipment of 3.7 tons of cocaine seems to be an example of a case that points to a deep problem of corruption within the US bureaucracy.

That jet was part of a US long-distance undercover operation called the Jaguar Maya, which involved the sale of dozens of planes to drug trafficking organizations in Latin America, according to court records recently revealed.

Now it seems, based on a Narco News investigation, that several of the planes sold through Jaguar Maya or related parties may have been used to move tons of cocaine into the European market, across Africa, even though some of these planes were supposedly monitored and tracked by the police or intelligence agents who oversaw Jaguar Maya.

Reports in the media as well as European researchers have connected the Gulfstream II jet, through its registration, N987SA, with its use in the past by the CIA, including alleged flights between 2001 and 2005 between the United States, Europe and the Bay of Guantanamo, where the infamous prison camp is located for the purposes of the so-called War on Terror.

The Gulfstream II jet was sold twice between August 31, 2007 and September 24, 2008 - the day it crashed in the Yucatan Peninsula with a load of cocaine.

Two Florida companies involved in these sales have been named in the briefs mentioning that the jet was part of a bizarre covert operation of the Office of Immigration and Customs (ICE) carried out in Latin America (Jaguar Maya) - in which there were no arrests or accusations in the US in the more than four years in which it was officially launched. According to US attorneys, the operation ended with the fall of Gulfstream II in Mexico.

Supposedly, the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security is investigating two ICE agents who were part of Jaguar Maya, according to federal court reports in Florida. The investigation focuses on the alleged illegal activity related to the Jaguar Maya operation.

However, several government sources who spoke with Narco News say that an operation such as the Jaguar Maya would have required a series of high-level and supervisory approvals, not only from ICE officials and the Department of Homeland Security, but also from officials of the Departments of Justice and of State, including the American ambassadors in the nations involved.

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Donna Blue, a few weeks after acquiring the Gulfstream II through a negotiated sale with World Jet, turned back and sold it to a Florida duo, which included a pilot named Gregory Smith, whom documents reveal He also works for World Jet as a pilot contractor and has worked in the past for US government agencies (possibly even the CIA) as a pilot contractor.
 

Myanmar pilot safely lands plane on its nose after landing gear failure
A passenger records the scene on her phone as firefighters attend to the scene after Myanmar National Airlines flight UB103 landed without a front wheel at Mandalay International Airport in Tada-U, Myanmar May 12, 2019 in this still image taken from social media video. Nay Min via REUTERS

A Myanmar pilot safely landed a passenger jet without its front wheels on Sunday, after landing gear on the Myanmar National Airlines plane failed to deploy, the airline and an official said.

It was the second aviation incident in Myanmar this week, after a Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane skidded off the runway during strong wind in Yangon on Wednesday, injuring at least 17 of those on board.

An official praised the pilot for bringing the Embraer 190 aircraft in to land at Mandalay airport on Sunday morning despite the technical failure. No one was hurt.

“The pilot did a great job,” said Win Khant, permanent secretary of transportation and telecommunication ministry, adding the incident was being investigated.

Myanmar National Airlines, the state-run carrier, said in a statement the aircraft had departed from the city of Yangon and was approaching the airport serving the central city of Mandalay when the pilot was unable to extend the front landing gear.

The pilot, Captain Myat Moe Aung, flew past the airport twice so that air traffic controllers could check if the landing gear was down, the airline said.

“Then the captain followed emergency procedures and did the fuel burn out to reduce the landing weight,” it said.

Video of the landing shows the plane touching down on its rear wheels before lowering its nose. The aircraft travels some distance along the runway on its nose, kicking up smoke, before coming to a halt. The crew then performed an emergency evacuation.

The airline did not say how many people were on board but Embraer said on its website the aircraft has a typical capacity of between 96 and 114 seats.
 
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This headline says a lot about Boeing and it's Human Resource Dept.?

Boeing crash payouts would be partly based on how long passengers knew they were doomed
Lawyers handling claims against the US aerospace company said the longer the passengers and crew were aware of their desperate fate, the larger the likely payout.


Settlements to the families of 346 people who died in the two catastrophic Boeing Max plane crashes will be calculated, in part, by how long the victims knew they were doomed.

Lawyers handling claims against the US aerospace company said the longer the passengers and crew were aware of their desperate fate, the larger the likely payout.

“There’s a better chance of (financial) recovery if it took minutes rather than seconds for the plane to crash,’’ Joe Power, a personal-injury lawyer representing some Ethiopian victims, told Bloomberg this weekend.

The first passenger plane, Lion Air Flight 610, ditched into the Java Sea 12 minutes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia on October 29th last year.

Six months later on March 10th, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed six minutes after take off from Addis Ababa.

In both cases, the jets were Max 8 models and in both cases, all aboard died.

Experts say the Boeing Company could be facing payouts in excess of $1 billion (£770 million) if it can be proved that it had knowledge that the model had safety flaws.

Thirty individual law suits have now been filed against Boeing on behalf of families with many more expected.

"The bottom line is Boeing’s exposure is much more substantial than in any other case that I’ve been a part of in my quarter-century of representing families’" in plane-crash cases, said Brian Alexander, a New York aviation lawyer for victims of the Ethiopian Airlines jet .

"You get into 'What did you know and when did you know it.'"

The two disasters, with similar characteristics, led to the worldwide grounding of all Boeing 737 Max 8 models.

Both pilots desperately struggled to take control of the aeroplanes as they intermittently dived while reaching speeds of close to 600 miles per hour.

Investigators have zeroed in on the malfunctioning Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, an automated safety feature designed to prevent a stall.

Earlier this month Dennis Muilenburg, the Boeing CEO acknowledged its automatic flight control system played a role in the two crashes.

"The full details of what happened in the two accidents will be issued by the government authorities in the final reports, but, with the release of the preliminary report of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 accident investigation, it's apparent that in both flights the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, known as MCAS, activated in response to erroneous angle of attack information."
 
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Japan's air force loses contact with F-35 stealth fighter

This incident is like the Twight Zone.

The US Navy has officially called off its search for Japan’s missing F-35A, with Tokyo promising to continue looking for the plane’s remains, as well as its missing pilot, using its own state of the art military and civilian vessels.

The US deployment included a guided-missile destroyer, multiple P-8A Poseidon aircraft, at least one U-2 spy plane and a remotely operated CURV 21 salvaging vehicle with advanced sonar onboard. The US swept the area where the plane had disappeared on April 9, combing over 5,000 square nautical miles of ocean.

However,
apart from a flight data recorder which was damaged beyond repair, a piece of the canopy, and parts from the plane’s tail fins, the joint search has recovered little evidence which could help the countries determine the cause of the accident.

Amid the lack of new information, CNN has swathed the accident in an air of mystery, reporting that a full month after the plane’s disappearance, Japan and its US allies were no closer to finding what caused it.

“This week, the Japanese government announced it recovered part of the jet’s flight data recorder
, but it was so damaged that the cause of the expensive stealth fighter crash is still a mystery,” CNN reporter Ivan Watson said in a news report on the subject.

The news network’s bewilderment is not without merit. Among its series of safety systems, the F-35 is said to be fitted with a transponder which could reveal its location on radar in the event of an emergency, including a crash. What happened to that transponder is unknown.

Moreover, in hopes of expediting the search, the US Navy deployed a Towed Pinger Locater 25, a device specifically designed to detect pings from the F-35’s emergency systems at depths of up to 25,000 feet, but had no luck.

Adding to the air of mystery was the background of the plane’s pilot, 41-year-old Maj. Akinori Hosomi, who, with his estimated 3,200 hours of flight time under his belt, was no rookie.

On the day of the crash, Hosomi communicated to radar operators and his fellow airmen that he planned to abort the routine training session
, but did not specify a reason, with no emergency signals sent before he and his plane disappeared from radars at 7:29 pm local time.

According to a Japanese Air Force official, the training was not taking place in low-altitude conditions, meaning that Hosomi should have had ample time to react to an emergency had something gone wrong.

In late April,
Japanese media sparked fears that the plane’s security may have been compromised before it went down, with Nikkei reporting that the US military was “looking into” the risk that the plane’s oxygen system had been corrupted by hackers, “perhaps during system updates –to plant the seeds for future software problems.”

The concerns were exacerbated amid fears stoked by US media of a “nightmare scenario” in which America’s adversaries Russia or China might join the search for the plane. In the month since, these fears proved unsubstantiated, with Japanese Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya saying there was no unusual activity to report from the presumed crash site.

US acting Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan similarly indicated that he was not at all concerned about the prospect of China getting to the crash site first, saying the Japanese were leading the investigation, with the US “working very collaboratively with them, and we’ve got a lot of capability if what they have doesn’t prove to be sufficient, okay?”

A month after the crash, with no explanation regarding the vanishing plane provided,
and with little wreckage found, Japan will now take up the search alone. Meanwhile, Tokyo has assured its US partners that it will continue buying the American fighter jets in the coming years.

Japan’s fleet of F-35s presently stands at a dozen F-35As, a conventional takeoff and landing variant of the aircraft. In late December, Japan increased its total F-35 order to 147, including F-35As and F-35B variants of the plane

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Chief of Naval Air Training officials said a jet crashed Friday at Naval Air Station-Kingsville.
Lt. Michelle Tucker said a T-45 Goshawk trainer crashed about 2:38 p.m.
Following a loss of engine power, a McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) T-45 Goshawk impacted the terrain shortly after takeoff from Kingsville Naval Air Station (NQI/KNQI), Kingsville, Texas.
The aeroplane sustained unreported damage and the two pilots on board ejected, receiving minor injuries.
Both were transported to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries.
Officials said the pilots of a T-45 trainer jet saw an engine warning light come upon just before takeoff and crashed on the runway. The two pilots ejected and were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
An official cause for the accident has been undetermined.
This is a developing story and we’ll have more as we learn about it.

 
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5 dead, 1 missing after 2 float planes collide midair off Alaskan coast

Five people are dead and one is missing after two float planes collided midair off the Alaskan coast on Monday.
Three other people are in serious condition, while seven are in “fair” condition, according to the Kechikan hospital.
Both planes were carrying cruise passengers from the Royal Princess cruise ship who were taking aerial tours around 1 p.m., said Princess Cruises in a statement.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the “multiple aircraft accident” occurred in Coon Cove near George’s Inlet, involving a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver and a de Havilland Otter DC-3.

According to the FAA, the aircraft “collided in mid-air under unknown circumstances.”

The Beaver had five people aboard, and the Otter had 11 people aboard, the FAA said.
The FAA said neither aircraft was under air traffic control of the crash. It is investigating, along with the National Transportation Safety Board.

The Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad said 10 people, including the pilot, of the larger aircraft had been taken to hospital, and one passenger remained unaccounted for. Princess Cruises says the flight was operated by Taquan Air, and was and was on a shore excursion booked through the cruise line.

The four cruise ship passengers and the pilot on the smaller aircraft, which was operated by an independent tour company, died, said Princess Cruises.

The U.S. Coast Guard said it was responding with a cutter, a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter, two 45-foot response boat mediums and that it was flying in relief crews.

“In a remote area such as this, given our limited resources, we rely on our partner agencies and appreciate the support that good Samaritans have rendered to this point,” said Coast Guard Capt. Stephen White, Coast Guard Sector Juneau commander in a statement.

“With the loss of life in this case, we know that the impact to Alaska is immense and our thoughts are with the community here.”

Princess Cruises says it has activated its Care Team to offer help to the passengers involved.
“We are incredibly distressed by this situation, and our thoughts and prayers are with those onboard the planes and their families. Princess Cruises is extending its full support to traveling companions of the guests involved,” said the company.
Cruise passenger Terry O’Neill said people on the boat are being offered access to grief counsellors.
“[The captain] said if any passenger wants to cancel any excursion over the duration of the trip, they will receive a full refund,” he added.

The Royal Princess departed Vancouver last Saturday, and was scheduled to arrive in Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday May 18.
The Ketchikan Daily News reported injured passengers were being taken to a nearby lodge, where the local emergency medical services department was staging. Their conditions were not immediately known.

Weather conditions included high overcast skies with 9 mph (14 kph) southeast winds.
-With files from the Associated Press

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