U.S. investigates background of downed plane (Remember missing 727?)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3861595/

U.S. authorities are investigating whether a Boeing 727 that shattered in a deadly Christmas Day crash off West Africa was the same jet whose disappearance in Angola last year set off a worldwide search, a State Department spokesman said Friday.

Also, a Canadian humanitarian-flight pilot told The Associated Press he saw a 727 with the missing Angola jet’s tail number at Guinea’s airport in June — a month after the jet’s disappearance.

The plane’s old tail number was not fully covered, and the plane was reregistered in Guinea and flown by Lebanese-owned Union des Transports Africains, pilot Bob Strothers said.

“We saw it on the ramp,” Strothers said by telephone from the Guinea capital, Conakry. “A new registration had been painted on the aluminum part, and underneath ... you could see the old registration number, which matches the plane that went missing.”

[Cannikin]

1. I wondered about that when I first heard about it...

I wonder what this is all about?

by the way...after less than 300 posts, I've already gotten a warning...ouch.

Sorry!

[frogfromthenorth2]

2. Warnings... You receive them by mail???

Just curious...