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[jerrybrockman]

I remember the flyover. I was down by the water disguised as a fisherman, watching the Delfin trucks. The scene reminded me of the secret convoys of NVA on the Ho Chi Minh trail back when I was doing recon in Nam as a Green Beret working for the CIA. Anyway, I was getting some great close up shots of the Delfin trucks with my 35mm Rambo-All Weather Xtreme Camera. It was a fleet of brand new shiny white F-350 Diesel work trucks, about a hundred of them all in line driven by men in khaki uniforms with the Delfin logo on their sleeves. It was quite a site to behold I must say. They were singing too. "Hi ho, Hi ho, off to work we go!"

Suddenly, from out of the clear blue sky, a Piper Tommahawk that I thought was just an innocent civilian passing overhead, executed an Immelmann turn and then went into an inverted dive directly for the convoy. The Delfin trucks panicked and scattered, many driving off the road into the swamps as the shirtless pilot tried to control the yoke with one hand while taking snap shots with the other. He seemed to be the last to realize what the men in the convoy already knew.

He was too low to clear the powerlines.

Pieces of the Tommahawk flew in all directions, trailing sparks from its collision with the high voltage wires. The pilot was never found, but part of the fuselage ended up on the swamp trail, and a cassette tape was still playing, "YMCA," by the Village People. That plane had a great sound system, it reminded me of being in a disco in the late 70s.

As I went to help one of the men that had gone off the road, I dropped my camera into the water where it was unfortunately eaten by an alligator. That's why I was never able to post my excellent DD pics.

The only thing they know about the plane was that the N number was registered to a flight attendant that worked for Eastern or TWA or you know, one of those old timey airlines that no one remembers very well.