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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Janice Shell who wrote (4885)	2/6/1998 3:46:00 PM
From: Surething	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

The question is: Who was on the ski lift that was a threat to Clinton?

To: Janice Shell who wrote (4885)	2/6/1998 4:20:00 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

I don't know, just pointing out that I believe it would be unusual if the plane had a flight data recorder, since it's not the norm. Too expensive they say....<g>

To: Janice Shell who wrote (4885)	2/6/1998 6:35:00 PM
From: Michael Sphar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Most of the military aircraft I came in contact with in the 21 years I was in USAFR MAC aircraft maintenance had all sorts of elaborate flight data recorders with emergency locater beacons and nifty means for ejecting these from the plane when a crash occurred. Not sure on the little guys but on the transport type planes these were required to be installed and fully functional for flight standard policy. I have three scenarios for this tragedy in question. 1 - a coverup. Very doubtful, miniscule probability in my estimation. The military might stonewall for lack of decision reasons but would probably eventually reveal the data. 2. SNAFU (situation normal, all fouled up) or something to that effect. Not realizing the significance, maintenance took the unit in question off the airplane for normal maintenance reasons and lost traceability. I give this a much higher probability than the first. 3. (My highest probability) When the plane came in contact with the cable, assuming it did, a significant piece of the plane was severed. At the ends of the planes I worked on, there were switches in place called frangible switches, designed to trigger the ejection of the styrafoam filled wafer contained the flight data recorder. This would also contain the ELT (emergency locater transmitter). The firing of the frangible switch in the vertical stab would release a lock on the spring loaded ejection mechanism, and turn on the ELT. These are line-of-sight radios with weak little battery powered transmitters which broadcast on 121.5 MHz and 243 MHz. Assuming the plane was low in a canyon already, this transmitter might be awfully hard to locate without a portable receiver carried by someone walking the length of the canyon. I'd start looking for it about 100' from the cable sever point and head in the direction of probable flight. Think of the batteries as reliable as cell phone batteries and you get the idea. Probably long since dead by the first 24 hours.