From: "Bill Hough" <psa188@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 10:29 AM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The original article can be found on SFGate.com here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/06/18/MN75061.DTL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- <snip> > The Boeing 727 had not budged from its parking place at the > airport in Angola's capital city for 14 months, so when the jetliner > started taxiing down the runway, the men in the control tower radioed the > pilot for an explanation. There was no reply, even after the plane rumbled > into the African skies. > The plane has been missing since it took off from the Luanda airport > around dinnertime on May 25, setting off a continent-wide search for its > whereabouts <snip> > The 28-year-old 727 had taken on 14,000 gallons of A-1 jet fuel shortly before it > departed. <snip> Didn't that make anyone suspicious? Who paid for the Jet-A? That's something more than $25,000! Could you get that much at the corner pawnshop for the airplane? Gerry http://foley.ultinet.net/~gerry/aerial/aerial.html http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley http://members.fortunecity.com/gfoley/egypt/egypt.html