Anybody see this story before?

Amelia Earhart?

Quick! Who’s gonna call TIGHAR? :diablo:

:eek:Sounds like it may be the remains of one of the evening joyriders plaguing the streets round there.

Why on earth would anyone recover the remains of an aircraft that either a) crashed on approach, or b) went in over the airfield and “place them in a wall”. Why would they do the same to the unfortunate pilot, who presumably would have been entitled to a Christian burial (assuming there was sufficient remains to inter)? Sounds like complete hokum to me. Does Chanel need a bit more advertising? Maybe they could “launch” a new perfum called “Airman” pour l’homme…..

So now its a pre-war jet with spoked wheels. A very convincing story!

Here is a further link,
http://londonist.com/2008/08/croydons_mystery_jet.php

Its a amusing story.

Oh dear. Oh dearie me….

Don’t tell me…the same journo who did the infamous “London Bus found on Moon” story!

My personal thanks to:

ANNE GILES, SELSDON says…
10:41pm Sun 10 Aug 08
cr2 – re gas and electricity bills, over 60s receive a fuel allowance which should pay for this. The last thing an elderly person wants to do is start digging and planting vegetables. Not with arthritic knees or bad backs. My in-laws stopped gardening after a certain age and a neighbour started mowing their lawn for them. For people with less money, the stalls at Croydon market sell vegetables very cheaply.

I’m nearly 68, but I don’t receive the annual fuel allowance and although the veg might be cheap at Croydon market, it would cost me a few hundred €uros to get there.

To keep on topic a bit, I’m dubious about the crashed/crushed aircraft in a wall, how thick is the wall?

Or should that read, how thick………………………?:diablo:

You’re not kidding…

I Have lots of pains in my back and knees but that comes with old age…

…fell to their deaths after ropes snapped for no apparent reason…

Gas and electric have all gone up again…

There is nothing wrong with the word dead.

Grow vegetables while sending e-mails and drinking coffee at the same time…..not easy!

My husband earns almost half as much as he did years and years ago.

…another bus laden to the brim with pensioners drives past…

I guess there was something buried in there.

My father is dead – my grandparents are all dead – my aunts and uncles and also two elder sisters – all absolutely dead.

…having a vegetable patch can save a lot of money over the years.

I must remember to bite my lip…

Deceased would be a better word. Please demonstrate some respect.

I spend half my time in the betting office just to keep warm…

…the dog went berserk…

The last thing an elderly person wants to do is start digging and planting vegetables.

I’ve reported you for insulting me and telling lies on a public internet forum.

I thought this story was about a crashed plane?

…and I thought we had a problem with thread creep! 😀

Would love to know more, but it doesn’t look as though they are going to get much help from the stupid bloggers to that newspaper article.:mad: