19-07-2012, 02:26 PM
Dawn,
Thanks to you, I located the name of the missing flight instructor which Hankey cited. I also have been rethinking about what I had said about the fuel gauge being in the OFF position.
It occurred to me that I recalled from a long time ago on the JFKresearch forum that someone had thought the pressure bomb had been placed in the rear compartment of the plane where the baggage would be stored. This could have broken off the rear part of the plane causing the remaining front part of the plane to tip forward from its horizontal position in the air (due to the weight of the engine, four passengers, and wings) and fall to the sea nose first. Perhaps to slow down the rate of descent, the pilot, John or Flight Instructor, reached for the fuel gauge to cut off fuel to the motor and thereby try to soften the impact as much as possible (?) This could explain why the fuel gauge was in the OFF position.
I remember reading that the propellers of the plane had been bent in such a way that they may have been rotating when the impact occurred. They could still have been rotating more slowly if the motor had stopped because of inertia. After all, there were only a very few seconds between the bomb's explosion and the impact from the descent.
Just some more thoughts.
Adele
Thanks to you, I located the name of the missing flight instructor which Hankey cited. I also have been rethinking about what I had said about the fuel gauge being in the OFF position.
It occurred to me that I recalled from a long time ago on the JFKresearch forum that someone had thought the pressure bomb had been placed in the rear compartment of the plane where the baggage would be stored. This could have broken off the rear part of the plane causing the remaining front part of the plane to tip forward from its horizontal position in the air (due to the weight of the engine, four passengers, and wings) and fall to the sea nose first. Perhaps to slow down the rate of descent, the pilot, John or Flight Instructor, reached for the fuel gauge to cut off fuel to the motor and thereby try to soften the impact as much as possible (?) This could explain why the fuel gauge was in the OFF position.
I remember reading that the propellers of the plane had been bent in such a way that they may have been rotating when the impact occurred. They could still have been rotating more slowly if the motor had stopped because of inertia. After all, there were only a very few seconds between the bomb's explosion and the impact from the descent.
Just some more thoughts.
Adele