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Two wise, far too much Wise.

I got really fed up with the “Wise” pontification when he had the aircraft halfway to hells gate in some place long forsaken by the gods.  The endless self promotion and leaps of faith required turned the stomach.  

Now he’s got barnacles – and a good story until once again a leap of faith is required.  Now I can support the ‘research’ done by others; all sound – then “tethered” is brought into the mix and it’s off on another Wise self advertising spree.  

None of the serious researchers have drawn conclusions from the ‘barnacles’ let alone a notion that somehow, the bloody aircraft was “tethered” like an old horse to a tree stump somewhere.  I call Bollocks, from a purely ‘engineering’ perspective, it’s bollocks, before we get anywhere near logistics and technique and damage.  Bollocks: even Beaker makes more sense.

Apart from that, the research was 'interesting' and well argued, pity it was hi-jacked.

Maybe tethered was the wrong word to use, maybe it hung around in the water off the island  for a while, waiting for a current strong enough to get it washed up on the beach. Being submerged, and pretty big, it might have run into a sand bank or something. Barnacles grow pretty quick, if it was colonized where it dropped, it would be covered in the things.

Plane wreckage found on Tawi Tawi island could be from QZ8501, have to wait and see what they announce, if they investigate it.

There is also the missing Flying Tiger 739 from 1962 they never found.