Does anyone remember that 727 jetliner that disappeared? Well...
 

Doesn't anyone else think that there is a possibility that it will resurface on September 11, whether in the USA or elsewhere?

According to the FBI, it had been outfitted to carry diesel. Hence if it does appear... it will probably be loaded with fuel or explosives. Looks like bad news for someone. Or am I jumping the gun?


http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/seekinfo/padilla.htm

On May 25, 2003, at approximately 6 p.m. local time, an airplane took off from DeFevereiro International Airport in Luanda, Angola, with neither clearance nor a flight plan, and has not been seen since. The plane is described as a 200 series advanced 727 jet with a tail number of N844AA, and a serial number of 20985. It is unpainted silver in color with a stripe of blue, white, and blue. The plane was formerly in the air fleet of a major airline, but all of the passenger seats have been removed. It is outfitted to carry diesel fuel.

Law enforcement officials believe that Ben Charles Padilla may have been on board the plane at the time it disappeared. The FBI is interested in locating Padilla, as he may have information as to the whereabouts of the plane.

I don't see how diesel would make a very good compliment to explosives. It has a super high flashpoint and a super slow burn.

Very strange though.

It's a tank. I would think they could put anything in it.

From most of the less hyped news around this subject I've seen, its not uncommon for planes in thie area of the world to take off with out permission or a flight plan.

Not sayin its not going to be a problem for alot of people, but don't let the gov't and news media do the terrorists jobs of keeping evreyone scarded to fuck all the time.

Well, we know that it could be loaded with absolutely anything.

Last seen over the Bermuda Triangle. :stoned

well, if it goes airborne in airspace, the US has the capability to track and shot it down.

its as simple as that, all eyes are on the 911 tragedy.

Agreed.

From another board:


I am Joseph B. Padilla, SR. I live in Pensacola, Florida - U.S.A. I am the Brother of Ben Charles Padilla Jr. You can contact me at : 850-944-9688 or either by e-mail - [email protected]

Here is what I have so far about the story.

As in the begining as I told ABC News on The Good Morning America Show that I appeared on in New York, I thought that the Boeing 727 Plane had been sitting there in Angola for 14 months unattended to and not maintained. Now, I have found out that My Brother, Ben Charles Padilla, Jr. had been in Angola for 2 months overseeing a crew of aircraft mechanics re-working the plane from one end to the other. A B-Check was done and it was found to be fine. I talked to the owner of the plane, Mr. Maury Joseph, which is also the owner of Aerospace Sales And Leasing in South Florida. I too live in florida, Pensacola, Fl. and my brother too was born and raised here. Maury Joseph told me that he was there in Angola two weeks before the disappearance to see how things were going with the re-build of the 727 and also talked to my brother 2 days before the plane became missing and he had sent my brother $43,000.00 for him to pay the fees to the airport there in Angola. My brother paid the airport and faxed Maury Joseph the reciept, This is what Maury Joseph told me this past friday night during our two and a half hour phone conversation. My brother was also incharge of the hiring of a pilot and co-pilot. He was to be the Flight Engineer for the flight out of Angola for the repossession of the Boeing 727 plane. My brother is not licensed to fly a 727 and never has flown an aircraft this large. He is a Licensed Aircraft Mechanic, Flight Engineer, and Pilot of smaller airplanes. <u>I was told that he had took the plane out to the end of the runway and ran the engines up to check to see how they performed. I feel that when my brother was checking the engines, someone was on the plane and hijacked him.</u> My brother isn't a criminal nor has never done any wrong doings. Maury Joseph told me that he trusts my brother and doesn't believe the reports of my brother stealing the plane. Maury Joseph also told me that he had talked to the Airport there in Angola and had found out that the control tower had radioed the 727 and told them as they were headed out to the runway to take off, that they didn't have clearance nor permission to take off and the tower never recieved a response from the 727. I talked to my brother Ben Padilla, Jr. back in either Jan. or Feb. and we talked about the Sept. 11 2001 ordeal and he himself told me that if this sort of thing ever happend to him, that he would down the plane in a New York Second. So, with that said I really believe my brother was hijacked and taken prisonier and held against his will and possibly was killed.

My mother had a heart attack on Mothers day and my brother was e-mailed about this and he responded to the e-mail he recieved from another brother of ours and told him that he would contact us as soon as he could and we haven't heard anything from him. So, that tells me that something isn't right since he would of contacted the family about our mother.

I have talked to the FBI and State Department in Washington, D.C. and all they are willing to tell me is that they have not found my brother nor the plane.

Thank you so much for your time.

Joseph B. Padilla, SR.

Not locked. :glugglug

bump.

bump

Damn, looks like they still haven't solved this mystery.

It probably got destroid in Covert Operations.

Nice fake sympathy story.. The brother was an ex cia operative working for air america.

Most likely one of 2 things happened.


#1 Theory - The guy attempted to fly out the plane with little experience to avoid paying the extra airport fees, crashed in the jungle. end of story...


#2 Theory - some whacked out conspiracy theory you would never believe or understand. Or aliens..

everyone says their family member is innocent. their opinion is worth shit.