As the search continues:
We have relatively new intel from a Brazilian man who was near Maurak at a gold mine the morning the plane went missing. He claims he saw the plane fly over around 9:00 am, which would allign with a scenario that Bob had problems and was headed back to home base in Maurak or Santa Elena. The Brazilian gave some details about where he was and where he saw the plane go over. He said it appeared to be having trouble and the engine was not running. He claims that he told some of the leaders from the Maurak area shortly after the plane went missing about this, but this is new intel for us and the Civil Protection. We are not sure how accurate this data is, however, Celso and his team are headed to the area to check it out. It is fairly close to Maurak and a long ways away from the current search zones, however, it can be searched with little resources and therefore will be checked out before they head back to the deep jungle search areas in August.
Our meeting a couple of weekends ago with Dr. Garcia and Andrehina Diaz in Texas was very beneficial. They continue to support in anyway possible. They carried supplies back to help with the ground search effort.
We sent some financial help down to Celso to pay for the expenses incurred so far. He was very appreciative. He also now has a hand held GPS, a SPOT GPS transponder and a waterproof digital camera to help document the search efforts.
Nytta Norton (Bob's mom) will be going down on the 10th of August. She will be meeting with Celso while there to thank him and to deliver any additional instructions from the analysis team.
We continue to process the new satellite images to determine if there are POIs in Search Zone D and surrounding areas that need to be investigated.
Cesar, from Civil Protection is doing detailed analysis of the radio propagation from the 40 meter radio Bob was using. This will continue to refine the search zones and will elliminate some of them due to the low probability of transmission due to the distances.
And as God provides... "we press ahead"
As the search continues:
We have relatively new intel from a Brazilian man who was near Maurak at a gold mine the morning the plane went missing. He claims he saw the plane fly over around 9:00 am, which would allign with a scenario that Bob had problems and was headed back to home base in Maurak or Santa Elena. The Brazilian gave some details about where he was and where he saw the plane go over. He said it appeared to be having trouble and the engine was not running. He claims that he told some of the leaders from the Maurak area shortly after the plane went missing about this, but this is new intel for us and the Civil Protection. We are not sure how accurate this data is, however, Celso and his team are headed to the area to check it out. It is fairly close to Maurak and a long ways away from the current search zones, however, it can be searched with little resources and therefore will be checked out before they head back to the deep jungle search areas in August.
Our meeting a couple of weekends ago with Dr. Garcia and Andrehina Diaz in Texas was very beneficial. They continue to support in anyway possible. They carried supplies back to help with the ground search effort.
We sent some financial help down to Celso to pay for the expenses incurred so far. He was very appreciative. He also now has a hand held GPS, a SPOT GPS transponder and a waterproof digital camera to help document the search efforts.
Nytta Norton (Bob's mom) will be going down on the 10th of August. She will be meeting with Celso while there to thank him and to deliver any additional instructions from the analysis team.
We continue to process the new satellite images to determine if there are POIs in Search Zone D and surrounding areas that need to be investigated.
Cesar, from Civil Protection is doing detailed analysis of the radio propagation from the 40 meter radio Bob was using. This will continue to refine the search zones and will elliminate some of them due to the low probability of transmission due to the distances.
And as God provides... "we press ahead"
