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Mystery of Aer Lingus Flight 712 British Missile Strike &
Commercial Cover-up in 1968?
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Accident Investigations 1971 to date Over the years, wreckage has appeared from time to time – not always connected with Flight EI-712. 1974May - The wing of an RAF plane was found near the site of the crash. The British Ministry of Defence explained it away by saying that undercurrents in Cardigan Bay disperse debris widely. The locals in Wexford scoffed at the suggestion. The currents run north-south, not east-west they said. Since then, according to the Sunday Times investigation, it has been established that the debris was in the sea only a year or at most 5. But, what if it was 6 years? 1994February - A French trawler operating there brought a metallic artifact to the surface. It was part of a jet engine. An engineer examined it and stated the part came from a British "Meteor"aircraft. The "Meteor"was used as a target drone in the late 1960s. An examination of the Aberporth test facility records indicates frequent use of "Meteor"drones in the days just before and after the crash of Flight 712. How did a "Meteor"end up on the seabed near the site of the 1968 crash? Was this what the military trawling activities were attempting to retrieve after the accident? Where did the "Meteor"come from? Does the "Meteor" wreckage have anything to do with the Viscount wreckage? March - Reporter Peter Thompson revealed in the "The Irish Times", on March 25, 1994 that the astonishing fact that in all the time since the loss of Flight 712, the Irish Government had never requested to examine British Ministry of Defence records to determine for itself the relevancy of the information there. Citizens who remembered that the crash inquiry had somehow concluded that the Viscount had "almost certainly not hit another aircraft, target drone, or a wayward missile, but was unable to provide an explanation for the crash." Such a conclusion provided an obvious and powerful reason for the Irish Government to push for their own examination of British Ministry of Defence records, and yet, this had never been done. What could be the reason for such a lack of initiative?
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