Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Serendipitous Discovery

The search for Steve Fossett, who is presumed to have crashed somewhere in the Sierra Nevadas, has not yet located the wreck of his plane, but it has found eight other unknown wrecks.


It reminds me my junior-high vice-principal, who ordered a student's locker searched after being told he had brought a gun to school. They didn't find a gun, but they did find a knife, a chain, and a hashpipe.


-- Johan Larson

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Back in 1985 I was working for Helicare Ag as an apprentice A&P mechanic. My boss at that time was the now famous Air Show Pilot Sean Tucker. I spent some of that summer washing and waxing his Pitts Special until one fateful day when we learned that he had bailed out while practicing over the hills east of Salinas. Our Helcopters and local sheriffs deputies searched high and low for that little red plane. Some hunters found it, purely buy chance, eight years later. Airplanes are hard to find when they dont look like airplanes anymore.

Tony Derrer

Anonymous said...

It's strange but true that sometimes, even in this day and age, people just go missing. A while back, a famous computer scientist named Jim Gray just plain vanished. He was last seen on his sailboat headed out to sea, and no sign of him or the boat has turned up since.

fly44d said...

Maybe there really are aliens out there abducting us. At least now they are starting to get smarter people. The ones they returned were obviously rejected.