shari - 8-7-2012 at 09:52 AM
I have been following a news story about a private plane that disappeared off the radar screen near Cabo a couple days ago. There is alot of
speculation going on about this emergency landing the gringos made when the plane supposedly had some mechanical issues.
People think the plane was carrying drugs, or money or arms or explosives and was stolen in LA...maybe it was just tourists with engine trouble?
Is there any news of this on Baja Bush Pilots site? Anybody know anything concrete about this?
http://colectivopericu.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/cabo-san-luc...
http://colectivopericu.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/avioneta-hay...
[Edited on 8-7-2012 by shari]
capt. mike - 8-7-2012 at 10:15 AM
no reports on BPI .
might check the cessna pilots owners assoc forums.
capt. mike - 8-7-2012 at 10:23 AM
can you get the english version of this story?
shari - 8-7-2012 at 10:38 AM
http://colectivopericu.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/aterriza-de-...
Cabo San Lucas, BCS-A two-thirty in the afternoon of this Sunday, the control tower reported the disappearance of a Cessna N97532-registered from the
city of Los Angeles, California.
The pilot reported mechanical problems and presented the latest coordinates, the search focused on the area Migriño and gaps. At first he thought he
could have landed on the road.
Immediately, elements of the Fire Department, Civil Defence, Federal Police, Municipal Police, Red Cross, Navy Mexico and the Mexican Army brigade
deployed a search in the area, with the support of the motorcycle rental company MotoSol.
At three p.m. came in groups to search for the aircraft by the sea and the splits that connect to La Candelaria, which is approximately within 25 to
35 kilometers from the port of Cabo San Lucas.
The results were negative until he received radio notice that one of the checkpoints of the race off Cape Road 250 that was made at that time, had
observed the airplane landed and reported that all four occupants had unhurt.
Of immediate elements of the Federal Police and Civil Defence led by the deputy Raul Camacho and Unzón coordinator Cabo San Lucas Joaquin Tellez Alamo
were prepared to greet the occupants under the bridge known as Migriño, which were transported by private car .
Matt went to the scene Hale, Justin Hale, Hale and Arthur Kell and Arturo Hale Caitlyn (pilot), who refused to be checked by paramedics and Red Cross
preferred to be transferred to international airport, where relatives were waiting.
All were some bumps and scrapes with less consideration.
The single-engine plane landed in the gap of La Candelaria and became blocked at the side of the road. Only had one of its windows broken, blows on
the tip of its wings.
The emergency landing site was under guard elements of the Navy of Mexico and the Mexican Army.
and another article
http://colectivopericu.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/avioneta-hay...
Plane: There are doubts!
Posted on August 6, 2012 | 26 comments
He dismantled the board
No one knows what hid
Cabo San Lucas, BCS-After the emergency reported yesterday was because the aircraft was reporting technical problems and was preparing to land in the
area of Migriño 30 kilometers from the airport of this city, came the first doubts about the mysterious fact.
And when you have saved a total secrecy about these facts when about two-thirty in the afternoon gave notice that the Cessna aircraft had landed at a
gap near the town of La Candelaria. This is because that area was going the route of the race who gave 250 Cape notice of the exact location of
arrival.
First they said there were technical flaws in the plane from Los Angeles. However, the occupants were not injured, refused medical attention.
When elements of the Navy of Mexico arrived at the site (see photos), they found the Cessna Skylane II N97532-registered to one side of the gap near
the point known as "The Virgin" with the board completely dismantled.
It was noted that the left front of the cabin had been torn, but the reason is still unknown. A portion of the board was left in the back and dangling
wires instruments.
Crew members were identified as Matt Hale, Justin Hale, Hale and Arthur Kell Caitlyn (pilot), were taken to receive medical care under the bridge of
Migriño, but were eager to leave the site for the airport and only gave their names to Civil Protection.
It is not known at the time of his whereabouts. All that has transpired, as is published in today's edition of the newspaper THE VOICE OF THE ROPE, is
that the Ministry of Defence has opened an inquiry because the site is not presented or elements of the PGR, or Immigration, much less the State
Ministerial Police.
capt. mike - 8-7-2012 at 02:50 PM
i'll look up the registry at FAA
shari - 8-7-2012 at 02:52 PM
gracias Mike...it's just rather odd they just got driven to the airport and sort of disappeared and didnt deal with the police or anything and now in
the comment section of the newspaper there are lots of wild speculations being thrown around....kinda caught my interest.
capt. mike - 8-7-2012 at 03:05 PM
it is corporation owned, 1979 model 182 Q
Based at Westlake village CA. [ventura county]
probably legitimate tourists and had a mech issue. Perhaps some of their party flew comm'l.
motoged - 8-7-2012 at 04:49 PM
Another press article stated that the plane's owner/pilot had previously been charged with selling airplane parts to China....something fishy
here....
http://www.dodig.mil/IGInformation/IGInformationReleases/Interaero_111804.pdf
": Plane with 4 Americans aboard crash lands in Baja California Sur
The results of some checking around by Fulano. The airplane that crashed is registered to a company named "Interaero, Inc." in Westlake Village, CA.
The president of Interaero, Inc. is the named pilot, Arthur Lee Hale. He has a private pilot license, with no instrument rating.
His company, Interaero, Inc. has been in trouble. It is an aircraft parts company and was convicted of a felony for exporting aircraft parts to China
in 2004. Apparently only the company was convicted, not the President, Arthur Hale.
http://www.dodig.mil/IGInformation/IGInf...111804.pdf
The local Baja California Sur newspapers are saying everybody on the crashed plane hurried to the airport at Cabo San Lucas to catch a flight out of
Mexico. Based upon the distances traveled, I'd guess the pilot ran of gas 30 miles before his destination of Cabo San Lucas."
dizzyspots - 8-7-2012 at 08:37 PM
and what about the stripped instrument panel??? avionics, gauges gone??
capt. mike - 8-8-2012 at 08:39 AM
that can happen in 10 minutes once the plane is abandoned and/or has no security.
motoged - 8-8-2012 at 09:34 AM
It sounds like this plane landed in the middle of a race on the road up to Candaleria....and folks were on the scene...and unlikely that the plane was
ransacked while the pilot and passengers were there...
Still, a bit of a mystery