Spartans are not seen here in Puget Sound often. This one came up from Sacramento. I regularly see them on flight data apps over Californian airspace. Not within a few miles of me.
Might explain why I didn't recognize the noise when it passed overhead.
🇺🇸 US Coast Guard MH-65D Dolphin 6517 engaged in a search pattern for the missing from today's crash of N725TH.
As seen from Port Gamble this evening.
The search continues this morning for those still missing from N725TH. Search is being extended out to the waters off Edmonds it seems as the tide would have drawn away anything or anyone from the initial crash site.
The search has been called off and the remaining 9 missing are presumed dead. One body recovered makes ten lost. A search of USCG air assets reveals the skies clear over the crash area.
Fantastic film. Perhaps the best of the modern era in terms of nuclear war fiction. Invoking the plot lines of a number of many prior films without actually drawing them to their full conclusions.
That said, I felt there were several major problems.
First, the whodunnit.
The scenario is made possible by a certain amount of ambiguity as to whether the DPRK, PLA or Russia launched the initial missile, made possible by a failure of detection by an early warning satellite in a region in which all 3 nations share interests.
SAR imagery confirms destroyed airframes at the locations in part 3.
Adjusting suspected one Tu-22M location (52.901642, 103.575327) to 52.900303, 103.574194.
Adding third suspected Tu-22M: 52.895627, 103.582776