Frederick Valentich
18.04.2012 um 16:03Grundsätzlich hätte es natürlich auch gereicht ,zumindest die Conclusions im Haines Artikel zu lesen ,wo nicht bestritten wird,das das Flugzeug ins Meer stürzte:
Based on what is already known about his flight plan and what can be learned from the new eyewitness evidence, we have come to the following conclusion regarding the fate of Frederick Valentich. We conclude, on the basis of the evidence presented above, that Frederick likely crashed into Bass Straight. The ground witness testimony places the airplane’s approximate flight path somewhere within the arc defined by the lines C-200° and C-126° in Figure 1, ESE of Cape Marengo. The most likely range of distances from the witnesses is from 3 to 12 miles as is discussed above. Consider the following line of evidence.
First, no wreckage of Valentich’s airplane has been found. If he had crashed
Locating a crash at sea is a far more diffi- cult task. Second, Valentich’s airplane was seen flying in a southerly direction east of Apollo Bay around 9:00 p.m. (based on certain reasonable assump- tions). Third, Valentich was clearly disoriented by 9:10 p.m. at the latest and probably earlier. Many pilots will not admit this to the authorities for fear of pending medical investigations that might be required, which would put their flying career in jeopardy. Fourth, the Cessna could have flown a distance of 27.5 miles at 110 miles per hour during these 15 minutes. Of course, the main question is, in which direction was Valentich flying? Fifth, Valentich was fly- ing in circles by 9:10:20 (and possibly earlier) and admitted to being confused about the relative magnetic bearings to the UFO by 9:11:23. Clearly, he did not know where he was at that point. It is possible that he could have flown back toward the mainland at some time after 9:06, either deliberately or by mistake. Perhaps he was somehow captivated by the strange object he saw flying near his airplane. Sixth, at 9:12:09, Valentich reported that the strange aircraft was “...hovering on top of (him) again ... and (was) not an aircraft.” Is this what Mr. Hansen and his nieces witnessed from the ground minutes later? If so, then the Cessna was descending within the area shown in Figure 1 and may have impacted the water somewhere within the dashed area shown in Figure 1. Un- derwater search activities should begin in this region of Bass Strait.
According to an Australian Marine Research report (Ocean Currents, 1997), Bass Strait is a shallow continental shelf with an average depth of from 50 to 70 m. Tide and wind action results in the mixing of the Bass Strait and the Tas- man Sea, causing the saltier, colder (1–3°C) surface waters to sink (down- welling) and fall, much like a waterfall down the continental shelf slope, “be- ginning midway between Flinders Island and the Victorian coast and extending north almost to Jervis Bay” (Ocean Currents, p. 5). The Bass Straight Cascade pours toward the east.
Tides in Bass Strait “originate from the tidal wave traveling southward down the east coast of Australian. As the wave passes the eastern entrance of Bass Strait, some of its water is deflected into it, slowing down to 80 km per hour in the shallower water. The rest of the wave continues at high speed around Tasmania in a clockwise direction to reach the western entrance to Bass Strait some 3 hours later. The wave front entering from the west meets the wave front entering from the east, causing large tides along a north-south line in the middle of Bass Strait.”
Because of the velocity and force of these currents, it is likely that underwa- ter debris may be carried a long distance. The relatively low mass aluminum structure of Valentich’s Cessna airplane would not sink quickly, nor would it dig into the bottom surface very far as would an anchor or the hull of a heavy ship. It might be possible to locate a particular area where such debris would accumulate over time. Computer simulations should be run to develop esti- mates of the debris field on the sea bottom, given tides and currents in the vicinity of the probable impact point of Valentich’s plane on the sea surface.
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Based on what is already known about his flight plan and what can be learned from the new eyewitness evidence, we have come to the following conclusion regarding the fate of Frederick Valentich. We conclude, on the basis of the evidence presented above, that Frederick likely crashed into Bass Straight. The ground witness testimony places the airplane’s approximate flight path somewhere within the arc defined by the lines C-200° and C-126° in Figure 1, ESE of Cape Marengo. The most likely range of distances from the witnesses is from 3 to 12 miles as is discussed above. Consider the following line of evidence.
First, no wreckage of Valentich’s airplane has been found. If he had crashed
Locating a crash at sea is a far more diffi- cult task. Second, Valentich’s airplane was seen flying in a southerly direction east of Apollo Bay around 9:00 p.m. (based on certain reasonable assump- tions). Third, Valentich was clearly disoriented by 9:10 p.m. at the latest and probably earlier. Many pilots will not admit this to the authorities for fear of pending medical investigations that might be required, which would put their flying career in jeopardy. Fourth, the Cessna could have flown a distance of 27.5 miles at 110 miles per hour during these 15 minutes. Of course, the main question is, in which direction was Valentich flying? Fifth, Valentich was fly- ing in circles by 9:10:20 (and possibly earlier) and admitted to being confused about the relative magnetic bearings to the UFO by 9:11:23. Clearly, he did not know where he was at that point. It is possible that he could have flown back toward the mainland at some time after 9:06, either deliberately or by mistake. Perhaps he was somehow captivated by the strange object he saw flying near his airplane. Sixth, at 9:12:09, Valentich reported that the strange aircraft was “...hovering on top of (him) again ... and (was) not an aircraft.” Is this what Mr. Hansen and his nieces witnessed from the ground minutes later? If so, then the Cessna was descending within the area shown in Figure 1 and may have impacted the water somewhere within the dashed area shown in Figure 1. Un- derwater search activities should begin in this region of Bass Strait.
According to an Australian Marine Research report (Ocean Currents, 1997), Bass Strait is a shallow continental shelf with an average depth of from 50 to 70 m. Tide and wind action results in the mixing of the Bass Strait and the Tas- man Sea, causing the saltier, colder (1–3°C) surface waters to sink (down- welling) and fall, much like a waterfall down the continental shelf slope, “be- ginning midway between Flinders Island and the Victorian coast and extending north almost to Jervis Bay” (Ocean Currents, p. 5). The Bass Straight Cascade pours toward the east.
Tides in Bass Strait “originate from the tidal wave traveling southward down the east coast of Australian. As the wave passes the eastern entrance of Bass Strait, some of its water is deflected into it, slowing down to 80 km per hour in the shallower water. The rest of the wave continues at high speed around Tasmania in a clockwise direction to reach the western entrance to Bass Strait some 3 hours later. The wave front entering from the west meets the wave front entering from the east, causing large tides along a north-south line in the middle of Bass Strait.”
Because of the velocity and force of these currents, it is likely that underwa- ter debris may be carried a long distance. The relatively low mass aluminum structure of Valentich’s Cessna airplane would not sink quickly, nor would it dig into the bottom surface very far as would an anchor or the hull of a heavy ship. It might be possible to locate a particular area where such debris would accumulate over time. Computer simulations should be run to develop esti- mates of the debris field on the sea bottom, given tides and currents in the vicinity of the probable impact point of Valentich’s plane on the sea surface.
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