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[*] posted on 11-9-2006 at 09:55 AM


thx Lero, most/all of the answers to your good Qs are on the BBP site.



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[*] posted on 11-17-2006 at 12:20 PM


I heard the news when we were at the Loreto airport. My heart goes out to their families.

If you guys goto Playa Armenta please look for clues regarding my father's murder. Things like tire tracks and perhaps footprints. Though I bet the police ruined that evidence.
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[*] posted on 11-20-2006 at 12:36 PM


Has anyone taken trafking dogs down?? Not sure how traveled the area is, but if they pick up a human scent, they can follow it for miles.

Any update about the search?




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[*] posted on 11-20-2006 at 01:07 PM


Are the BBP still looking? Let's hope the plane went down inland and not at sea. Our prayers for the families waiting for word on their missing loved ones.



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[*] posted on 11-20-2006 at 03:24 PM


search is over, they scoured the peninsula in a very organized fashion 2 weeks, 12 planes, 60 people. not a trace the assumption now they were over water and went in the drink.

a statement is on the BBP.




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[*] posted on 11-20-2006 at 06:28 PM


Hats off to the BBP. They are to be commended for performing a most thorough and difficult search.



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[*] posted on 11-20-2006 at 07:18 PM
Thanks Mike


Appreciate you keeping us updated . I was really hoping for some sort of closure on this but it could end up being another one of bajas unsolved mysteries until someone stumbles across something.

The people who make up the Baja Bush Pilots are to be commended for their unselfish contribution of time ,equipment , money and mostly compassion.

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[*] posted on 11-21-2006 at 06:43 AM
Search for missing couple ends in Baja


http://tracypress.com/content/view/5768/2/

21 November 2006

A two-week search of Baja California for a missing Tracy couple has ended without any sign of the downed plane.

Four weeks after a private plane carrying former Tracyites Gary and Peggy Toste Thomas disappeared in a storm over the Baja Peninsula of Mexico, a search by volunteer pilots has come up empty, ending efforts to find the plane or its occupants.

Jack McCormick, administrator of Baja Bush Pilots, has reported that the final five-day search was officially called off Friday evening after the last pilot returned to the Mulege, Mexico, airstrip without any sightings over land or water.

McCormick told Peggy Thomas’ father, Joe Toste of Tracy, that last week’s concentrated search by 12 aircraft covered nearly all the territory over a 140-mile stretch of land and the Gulf of California, from south of Mulege north past the Bay of Los Angeles, without finding any trace of the single-engine Bonanza plane lost in a hurricane Oct. 23.

McCormick reported on the Baja Bush Pilots Web site:

“… Most troubling is that most of those who fly this route, including the Thomases, normally fly up and down the coast over water.”

McCormick told Toste that it could take up to a year for any debris from the plane to wash up on shore. One pilot in last week’s search reported seeing something in the water of the gulf, but a helicopter pilot making a closer inspection determined it was a canvas sail.

“Sure, this is disappointing not to find anything,” Toste said. “But those Baja Bush Pilots did all they could in two concentrated searches, and we are thankful for that.”

Toste said he was disappointed the American consulate in Tijuana couldn’t convince the Mexican government to request that U.S. Coast Guard aircraft join the search.

Gary Thomas, 52, and his wife Peggy Toste Thomas, 45, moved from Tracy to Escalon several years ago. Peggy Thomas’ two children continue to live in Escalon. Joseph Fagundes, 19, is a student at San Joaquin Delta College, and Samantha Fagundes, 16, attends St. Mary’s High School in Stockton.




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puzzled.gif posted on 11-22-2006 at 06:01 PM


Why wouldn't they give permission for Coast Guard assistance. That seems like a slap in the face !
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[*] posted on 11-22-2006 at 06:33 PM


Quote:
Originally posted by capt. mike
search is over, they scoured the peninsula in a very organized fashion 2 weeks, 12 planes, 60 people. not a trace the assumption now they were over water and went in the drink.

a statement is on the BBP.


Mike, we are very sorry to hear this about your dear friends/neighbors. Our thoughts go out to their family. The search efforts are to be commended. What an outstanding group of people!
Bob and Audrey H




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