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B-25 BOMBER (Homestead, Allegheny County)1956 "Mafia money" ?
The disappearance of the ghost Mitchell bomber still has the Tri-State wagging its' tongue. On January 31, 1956, the bomber went down in the bend of the Monongahela River between Glenwood and Homestead and it hasn't been found to this day. The Army spent two weeks trying to salvage it with no luck. Theories regarding the flight are a dime a dozen – it had nukes on board, nerve gas, Mafia money, Howard Hughes, a mysterious seventh passenger, although only six were supposed to be on the plane, even that it somehow splashed down in Pittsburgh's fourth river, an ancient glacial aquifer beneath the Three Rivers. The unofficial but generally accepted theory among conspiracy touts is that the Army closed down the river and pulled the plane up that night, sworn to by several folk. But on the hectic Mon (Pittsburgh is one of the busiest inland ports in America to this day, and was even more so in the 1950s when the mills were still humming), a secret operation of that magnitude would be virtually impossible to pull off. Add to the mix that the river was running high and swift, and the odds of getting a diver near the wreck was about zero. What happened to the bomber? The B-25 Recovery Group has sunk a huge amount of time and effort into finding the plane, and believe its' remains are sunk in a gravel bed. No metal would remain except for pieces buried deep in the sediment. The Mon was a toxic brew of chemicals back in the day and you couldn't leave a motorboat engine in it over the winter. The propeller would dissolve in the water. They also think the plane just ran out of gas and that's why it met its' watery fate. But until someone finds what's left of that plane, the stories of it being pulled up and melted down in the nearby mills after its' secret cargo or passenger was recovered will continue to flourish. And that's the way a good legend grows.
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The disappearance of the ghost Mitchell bomber still has the Tri-State wagging its' tongue. On January 31, 1956, the bomber went down in the bend of the Monongahela River between Glenwood and Homestead and it hasn't been found to this day. The Army spent two weeks trying to salvage it with no luck. Theories regarding the flight are a dime a dozen – it had nukes on board, nerve gas, Mafia money, Howard Hughes, a mysterious seventh passenger, although only six were supposed to be on the plane, even that it somehow splashed down in Pittsburgh's fourth river, an ancient glacial aquifer beneath the Three Rivers. The unofficial but generally accepted theory among conspiracy touts is that the Army closed down the river and pulled the plane up that night, sworn to by several folk. But on the hectic Mon (Pittsburgh is one of the busiest inland ports in America to this day, and was even more so in the 1950s when the mills were still humming), a secret operation of that magnitude would be virtually impossible to pull off. Add to the mix that the river was running high and swift, and the odds of getting a diver near the wreck was about zero. What happened to the bomber? The B-25 Recovery Group has sunk a huge amount of time and effort into finding the plane, and believe its' remains are sunk in a gravel bed. No metal would remain except for pieces buried deep in the sediment. The Mon was a toxic brew of chemicals back in the day and you couldn't leave a motorboat engine in it over the winter. The propeller would dissolve in the water. They also think the plane just ran out of gas and that's why it met its' watery fate. But until someone finds what's left of that plane, the stories of it being pulled up and melted down in the nearby mills after its' secret cargo or passenger was recovered will continue to flourish. And that's the way a good legend grows.
more
http://pittsburgh.about.com/od/transportation/a/b25_bomber.htm?p=1
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and I didn't catch it.
