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MH370 wreckage ‘find’ might ‘just’ be missing Flying Tiger Connie
Until MH370 vanished last year the largest missing passenger airliner was the Flying Tiger Line Lockheed Super Constellation that was carrying 107 people on a US military charter when it vanished in the western Pacific on 16 March, 1962.
It is just possible, remotely possible, that it has been found on a Philippine island near the NW tip of Sabah, a part of Malaysia, and mistaken for the lost Malaysia Airlines 777-200 that disappeared on 8 March 2014 with 239 people on board.
However the reports of wreckage including ‘many’ skeletons being found in jungle on Sugbay Island are unconfirmed, and burdened with confusion, contradiction and at this stage a seriously puzzling lack of real evidence.
One of the current reports about this find can be read here. Those who have been watching the story unfold have seen the discovery of plane wreckage and skeletons being variously credited to small boys looking for birds eggs, or to their grandmother, with the recovery of an apparently little damaged Malaysia flag as a souvenir.
A pilot is said to be seated upright in the cockpit, wearing communications gear on his head.
It is just possible, remotely possible, that it has been found on a Philippine island near the NW tip of Sabah, a part of Malaysia, and mistaken for the lost Malaysia Airlines 777-200 that disappeared on 8 March 2014 with 239 people on board.
However the reports of wreckage including ‘many’ skeletons being found in jungle on Sugbay Island are unconfirmed, and burdened with confusion, contradiction and at this stage a seriously puzzling lack of real evidence.
One of the current reports about this find can be read here. Those who have been watching the story unfold have seen the discovery of plane wreckage and skeletons being variously credited to small boys looking for birds eggs, or to their grandmother, with the recovery of an apparently little damaged Malaysia flag as a souvenir.
A pilot is said to be seated upright in the cockpit, wearing communications gear on his head.
Read more here: http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2015/10/13/mh370-wreckage-find-might-just-be-missing-flying-tiger-connie/
There is a factual account of Tiger Airways 739 on the Wikipedia site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tiger_Line_Flight_739
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