Not playing games. Just discussing the case.
I agree that those are the facts as you state them. I see nothing there that eliminates a central flight path.
I also disagree with your assessment that “someone F’d up”. While human error is possible, when you consider the real, tangible threat of a Soviet attack and the assortment of radar and radio tracking in that area and the acuteness of that particularly skyjacking, I think the possibility of someone “Fing up” is extremely low.” Those were highly trained military radar man. Screwing up could mean the lives of millions of Americans. Those guys didn’t “screw up” on the regular.
Now. I do not know if the FBI flight path math is exactly right. It’s written in pencil lol
But in general I think the airliner followed that general direction and did not veer to the west and over Tena Bar. My guess is that a much more detailed and much more accurate route map exists.
Georger - If I thought Tom Kaye would actually correspond with me, I might try, but my guess is that his inbox is filled with DBC questions and he deletes the ones who’s names he doesn’t recognize.
So let's debate:
You stated, "I agree that those are the facts as you state them. I see nothing there that eliminates a central flight path."
To the contrary, the placard find and the fiberglass skirt find absolutely prove that the FBI map is incorrect at those points. That said, if they're off at these two points how can you assume they're not off at some other critical points?
Also, if you consider where the money was discovered and the conditions under which it was discovered you begin to realize that the FBI search area derived from the FBI Flight Path map simply doesn't make sense.
One other thing, I have heard the "SAGE looks for Soviet threats, therefore, tracking 305 would be easy" line several times. This is grossly misleading. Here's how:
1) How do you know that SAGE was even used to track the airliner? Is it because in an FBI file an agent who wrote a 302 said so?
2) The map was crafted from data collected after the fact (2-days). That is not the same thing as following a threat in real time.
3) If SAGE was the be-all-end-all in this case, why then did the map also require data from NWO flight ops in Minneapolis, and flight data recorder info from the airliner? Are we to assume that SAGE would require similar data from the Soviets to track an encroachment into US territory from them?
4) We know for a fact that the SAGE component related to directing the F-106s to 305 was not working that night--this was quite common.
