Tuskar Rock Air Crash (Flight 712)

billy the squid

Not all conspiracy stories are American, we have one or two of our own on this little island of ours. One of the longest running being the Crash of Aer Lingus Flight 712 (Registration EI-AOW) of the coast of Co. Wexford at Tuskar rock on 24th of March 1968. 61 people were killed.

There were claims that a garbled message was heard from flight 712 about another aircraft in the area. fueling speculation that a colision with another flying object had taken place. The tapes from London Air traffic control didn't pick up the message about the "other aircraft, " and the Dublin Air Traffic Control tapes have not come to light.

The original report is no longer on the Irish Government website. so one has to use the Wayback machine to view it

http://web.archive.org/web/20000623213906/http://www.irlgov.ie/tec/aaiu/tuskar/index.html

Other interesting things to remember about the investigation:

1) The Brittish military searched for the air craft but never recovered, despite several witnesses stating where they saw the plane go down. seventy days after the crash a local trawlerman Bill Bates, found the aircraft imediately after entering the crash site....for the first time.

So the question remains, why could Her Majesty's Royal navy not find an aeroplane that numerous people saw crash, and spend 70 days not finding it, whereas one man and his boat (not even equipped to look for underwater wreckage) could find it straight away.

2) There were inconsistancies in whether or not the Brittish military were or were not carrying out missile tests in the area.

The british government say that they were not carrying out missile tests. but in 1974 a pilotless drone aircraft belonging to the british navy was pulled from an area of sea close to Tuskar rock. The british claimed that it had "floated there"

Also the logs of a number of british navy velssels which were alledgedly in the area, are missing for the time of the crash.

The british government deny carrying out missile tests in the area. but:

The official British Ministry of Transport file was shredded four years ago. A two-page CIA document, recently 'uncovered' under the Freedom of Information Act by a US investigator working for Ms. Bonnie Gangelhoff (whose parents died in the crash) claims that HMS Penelope was conducting missile tests with the new Seadart missile, one of which hit the Viscount. The document claims that bodies were cremated by the British authorities to cover up evidence that the plane was hit by a missile.

http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id245/pg1/

The revelation of the CIA document made was splashed on the front of the star newspaper after a TV3 news report on 6th January 2999

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Andes/9522/the.htm

Some questions remain unanswered about this incident.

Could the plane have genuinely malfunctioned? did the Irish government create this conspiracy theory about the plane being shot down to fuel anti-brittish sentement in the country?

Or, was the plane shot down by accident and then covered up by the british.

so what do people ahve to say about it.

that Geocities site has a shedload of info if anyone is interested in reading it by the way, http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Andes/9522/ there is a direct link to the front page of the site.

Also another resource from the Irish times into the 1999 report
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/special/2000/tuskar/index.htm

but wasnt ther something where the plane was travelling back to ireland for an emergency landing!it sounds like the plane malfunctioned!if it was hit by a missile then id presume it would go straight down.

billy the squid

The course diversion was instigated by Shannon Air Traffic Control. It has never been explained aparantly.

the question is though, if it was a technical issue, would they not have diverted the plane back to Cork, Shannon or Dublin if there was a technical fault. The diversion order came a good 30 minutes before the crash. therefore they would have been still in Irish airspace at the time.

yeah exactly but an enginge could have failed and slowed them down.i honestly think that it was a mechanical fault which caused it to go down!