http://www.bea.aero/en/enquetes/flight.af.447/info01may2011.en.php has photos of the mentioned “memory unit” and its’ recovery! 🙂
these threads are the one reason myself and lots of others i know come to this forum.
I second that. These threads were one of the few in which news wasn’t drowned by “armchair-general-comments”… 🙁
http://airnieuws.nl/fokkernieuws/FOKKERfleetlist-live%20dmt/fokkerfleetlist.html contains a picture showing
Fokker F60 UTA U-04 in her new Peruvian Navy colours
at Woensdrecht Air Base in The Netherlands last Thursday the 25th of November 2010.
Both remaining Fokker 60 transport aircraft of the Royal Netherlands Air Force have now been sold to Peru.
Well, as soon as volume 27 is out in the shops I will place an order… 😉
There is still no other publication that can beat the quality of IAPR…
Well, actually, bits were already found (and photographed) back in 2005 according to the Dutch text at
http://www.paracommando.com/news.php?extend.2187 .
A former Belgian Hercules pilot who was involved with several aid programmes locally sent out several search teams. These came back with photos and pieces of the wreckage, confirming the wreck was a Piasecki H-21.
The official Belgian-Congolese Army expedition will set up camp in Banalia along the river Aruwimi. From there the search party will have to hike 30 kilometres/19 miles through the jungle to reach the site of the crash.
The project will be called “Operation Buta 65”.
The primary school at
http://boa.bobob.info/Inhoudsopgave/Inhoudsopgave/de-Boarne.html is involved as well. They can be reached by email. 🙂
Well,
Commissie Monument Soarremoarre,
Address
J. Douwamastjitte 45,
postal code 8495 JA Aldeboarn, the Netherlands
is so far the only contact address I can find. No telephone number, no e-mail… :confused:
The local newspaper very likely does not own the copyright to the photo above.
And I seriously doubt whether the “Commissie Monument Soarremoarre” would object to you using their image.
The commission wants this crew to be remembered after all… 🙂
Ah Thanks Tango III , much better… 😉
Anyone got links to military aviation news stories/features that are no more than three days old ?
Thanks…
For what it’s worth, over at http://www.luchtzak.be/forums/viewtopic.php?p=239364#p239364 someone who claims to have known the captain of this flight said the Belgian pilot would have surely noticed any reptile being brought aboard “his” plane…
Perhaps this time he did not? 🙁
I’m going to have to watch it again I think because although I thought it was ok, I certainly can’t rave about it like everyone else here has.
I loved the current Geoffrey Wellum bits, but the acting and something about the recreated parts really didn’t grab me at all.I know it won’t be a popular viewpoint here, and it is certainly not to take anything away from the bravery of Geoffrey, and all the others that were there and idid so much.
I have to agree with Pagen01’s comments. The acting did not exactly “pull me into the story” at all… 🙁
Probably I am going to prefer the book, which I shall now be buying… 😀
Ah, you know more of him than I do.
But in the cause of airing all opinions I would like to see what somebody who doesn’t rate the Wellum programme thinks is superior. Then, if I have seen that I can judge, if not I can make haste to see it.
(As long as it isn’t Iron Eagle 1 > Infinity) 😮
Moggy
Well, I am sorry to say that I thought the Falklands docudrama “Sea of Fire” (sinking of HMS Coventry) by that same BBC was better by a strong margin.
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fit2dHfJ3oM
for part four and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68_EE9T64dg
for part five, with part six at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnkRzFSnl8M .
WARNING: from about 2.25 minutes part 5 at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68_EE9T64dg gets rather “graphic”. That’s when the A4-Skyhawk-delivered bomb explodes in the computerroom resulting in a terrible, horrific fire. 🙁
“Sea of Fire” is a masterpiece of spoken eyewitness-accounts mixed with actors depicting the actual drama.
Only two days to go till Tuesday evening 14sep2010 at 21.00 hrs UK Time/22.00 hrs CET !
See
http://www.liontv.com/London/Productions/First-Light 😎 for a video-trailer of this programme…