brianv wrote:When I was a boy I listened to the radio... Cue the wobbly fade...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aer_Lingus_Flight_712
I have long suspected the land known as "Ireland" to be a testbed for their schemes.
Neither pilot nor co-pilot show up on Irish records - I am, of course, not precluding the possibility that such records are incomplete.
Bernard O'Beirne indeed. Are they pulling our legs?
edit/ Well now, whatreallydidnthappen.con has an "article" on it. Imagine my shack! A freudian typo that will live for ever.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CR ... ingus.html
The day after the alleged crash of Aer Lingus {Flight 712 / EI-AOM / Saint Phelim} and
The Times of London had published a full list of all 61 victims/vicsims.
Four crew: Captain Bernard "Barney" O'Beirne, 35; First Officer Paul Heffernan, 22, and
stewardesses Miss Ann Kelly, 21, and Miss Mary Coughlan, 22.
And 57 passengers: From:
http://i.imgur.com/eEh1Q3W.jpg
The list contains an interesting spread of nationalities: mostly Irish from Co Cork, several of unknown nationality, some establishment Brits (spooks/flunkies) and a curiously large contingent of Belgians and Swiss. Plus two Americans, Mr & Mrs
Joseph & Mary Gangelhoff/Gangelhof/Ganglehoff (take your pick), living in Regent's Park, London. And also several victims/vicsims of no fixed abode, either of "no address" or just a "care of" address (maildrops for the life insurance cheques?)
Patrick Oanes, signalman at the
Royal National Lifeboat Institute in Rosslare told
The Times that he heard a tremendous splash at about 11.50am. When he learnt about the crash, he "
concluded that what I heard must have been the plane striking the sea". Evidently, a man with very big ears and remarkable hearing, as the alleged crash site was
more than 10 miles out to sea (not to mention the curvature of the earth!)
In 1967, Aer Lingus bought nine Vickers Viscount airplanes from KLM. Within months the Irish airline had written-off three of them, including this one. Were those earlier low-key "accidents" both dry-runs to test the procedure for the Big Crash of '68 into the Irish Sea? And perhaps to provide some mangled aircraft parts to parade before the cameras?
Notable casualties on Flight 712:
Mr Desmond P. Walls, of Glouthaune, Co.Cork. -- operations manager of the (then BP/Shell) Whitegate oil refinery in Cork, father of 12, and purported brother of Arthur Walls, Deputy General Manager of Aer Lingus (juicy life insurance sweetener in the offing that roped in the airline board?)
Brigadier Maurice Denham Jephson CBE, 77, and wife Eileen, 81, of Mallow Castle, Co Cork -- on the Brigadier's apparent death, his Mallow estate (Castle & 600 acres) passed to cousin Commander Maurice Mounteney Jephson and sons
Patrick Jephson and Michael Jephson.
Ex-Royal Navy officer Patrick Jephson became Chief of Staff at Kensington Palace and Princess Diana's private secretary from 1988-1996 while brother
Michael Jephson is/was Head of Catering at Buckingham Palace. A family of fully fledged flunkeys.
Dr Edmond (Noel) Mulcahy, of Wilton Ave, Cork -- MIST-educated inorganic chemist and
Irish chess champion from the 1950s. Mulcahy disappeared from the chess tournament scene for more a decade ("work and family commitments") re-surfacing publicly just before his sudden demise in the alleged air crash. Was he resurrected to raise his (sim?) profile, ready for the psyop? A chess tournament, dedicated in his honour, keeps his legend alive today.
Mr William Cox-Ife, 65, of Sloane Terrace, Chelsea, ex-British spy, and director of the Gilbert and Sullivan / D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (1951-1961). Do nutworkers donate their bodies (and souls) to psyops, in the same way that normal people donate them to medical science?

Strangely, this photo/fauxto(?) of the supposed salvage of Flight 712 in 1968 was only published in 1998,
30 years after the apparent disaster.

See
Times of London, 20 November 1998