Traffic On The Runway

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Everyone knows about the hassles of flying today. The crowds, the lines, TSA, extra charges for baggage, ugly people being allowed to be in the same line as you, having only one of your shoes come out on the conveyor, being told that the missing shoe isn’t on the conveyor and could you step over here please, the list goes on and on. But what isn’t widely known is that the congestion, and dangers of flying has entered the wildlife world.

The risks of flying seem greater lately with the increase in air traffic and reports of collisions and near misses a normal occurrence and nearly a daily event. An example of this phenomenon is just the other day a JAL flight out of Narita took off in a westerly direction the exact same time a British Airways flight left Heathrow in a northerly direction, the aircraft were barely 4800 miles apart. How there wasn’t a collision has been the main topic of conversation around the local air controllers’ water cooler ever since. It is estimated that by using this logic, and why wouldn’t you, there are nearly 800,209 potential accidents a day. That’s scary enough to put you off your eggnog without even trying to do the math.

If the possibilities of the comingling of two aircraft in mid-air aren’t enough there are threats of air traffic controllers striking, baggage handlers striking, food concessionaires striking, people writing about aviation employees striking, striking, it’s a wonder that you can get from point A to point B anymore.

This is just as true in the natural world as it is in the unnatural one. A case in point is the mystery that occurred in Bosque del Apache, a heavily used flyway in New Mexico, in December of 2009 when Flight 19, a squadron of Sandhill cranes stationed out of the wetlands near Socorro, New Mexico attempted a daylight landing on runway 00-Bravo during the morning of December 5th. With clear skies, an unlimited ceiling and no reported obstacles they were on their final approach to land when there was brief squawk of “Mayday! Mayday! Abort!… ” and the transmission ended.

The five Sandhill cranes that comprised that flight were never heard from again and to this day their whereabouts are unknown and the disappearance has never been explained. For weeks an area wide search was conducted without any results. “It is as if they have simply flown away” said one government searcher who wished to remain anonymous as he was not authorized to speak about this matter.

It has become one of the legendary mysteries of our times and one that has become the daily fodder of conspirator theorists everywhere. After all Bosque del Apache is only 143.79 air miles due West from Roswell, New Mexico and you’d have to have been abducted by aliens and probed to near exhaustion not to know the importance of what is located there.

Fortunately, as far as this mystery is concerned, runway 00-Bravo is one that the Institute has had “funny feelings” about for years and we had placed a hidden camera there without the knowledge and permission of the Powers-That-Be just in case something Very Weird might happen there someday. Well, as you can see it was really lucky we did because in going over a piece of long-lost digital film we came across this extraordinary image of Flight 19 actually attempting to make that fateful landing. How’s that for having your crap together?

Of course our image of Flight 19 and what really happened to it has been plastered all over the government billboards and forums and derided as being fake and made up and a visual lie, but we know the truth and now so do you. We will not be silenced, and black helicopters on silent running, hovering night after night over the headquarters building here at the Institute don’t scare us either. In fact nothing human will make us stop writing and unless we are actually abducted ourselves by some kind of ungodly alien kidnappers, the truth will out. Stay tuned for further bulletins about this secret Gov…..

Note from the ISP Blog relayers: Unfortunately the above post was truncated and ceased publishing suddenly. We have been unable to reach the Institute headquarters to find out what the problem is. In fact there is some kind of electronic blackout over that entire area that we are attempting to identify but as of right now there appears to be a government sanctioned news suspension in effect. We will report any changes in this situation as they occur. At this time we are not accepting calls regarding this startling development. Thank you for your patience.