Ted,
I was fully absorbed in my stock and index charts the night that JFK-Jr took off west/southwest of me here in northern NJ. In my area, we hear lots of small planes and jets because of Caldwell and Teterboro airports being relatively close by, but the plane I heard that night between 8:30 and 9pm (I was not watching the clock every every few minutes), just did not sound right. In fact, as I was rushing madly through the charts to get them out of the way so my wife and I could have some time together, I said to myself, DAMN!, maybe I should run to the window to see what's up with that small plane! By that time, it's weird sound had faded away, and I thought nothing of it the rest of the night. By the next morning of course, the news of his missing plane was all over the place, but I still did not immediately make the connection with the plane I heard the night before, UNTIL I found out that his plane had taken off from Caldwell (Fairfield) Airport. If that was his plane that I heard, and I am seriously convinced it was, it sounded to me like he was flying too low, and his plane's engine was "not all there". I called the airport on Sunday night to report this incident, and they said it made more sense then the other phone calls that they were receiving, but who really knows?
I am convinced that it was his plane that I heard, because for one thing, it is not every day or even every year that I feel like running to the window to check out a plane that sounds strange, and his potential flight path might have taken him over my area. As you can imagine, this hit me pretty hard, as it is such a hopeless/helpless feeling if you know what I mean. Yogi |
