Plane Search

[fast2okc]

The Civil Air Patrol is actively involved in a search in Hughes County for a missing plane. The high altitude plane providing radio coverage (designated "High Bird") is operating on 148.150MHz.

I can't hear any of the other frequencies in use. Anyone hearing anythng?

--FAST 2

 

[CommShrek]

The Civil Air Patrol is actively involved in a search in Hughes County for a missing plane. The high altitude plane providing radio coverage (designated "High Bird") is operating on 148.150MHz.

I can't hear any of the other frequencies in use. Anyone hearing anythng?

--FAST 2

Nada here in southern Tulsa county. They've been looking for 4-5 days now.

 

[KOK5CY]

Missing Plane

If anyone would stop and think for a minute . the aircraft was on radar at the 1 time but then all of the sudden it just up and disappeared . that lead's up to 2 different ?'s . did the doctor turn off the transponder by accident or did he really crash . anyone should know if a pilot think's he/she might crash they should have enough time to call in a may-day . but if the plane was a type of aircraft built for doing stunt's . there might be a reason why the transponder was not working . loose electrical connection or a dead battery .

 

[CommShrek]

Re: Missing Plane

If anyone would stop and think for a minute . the aircraft was on radar at the 1 time but then all of the sudden it just up and disappeared . that lead's up to 2 different ?'s . did the doctor turn off the transponder by accident or did he really crash . anyone should know if a pilot think's he/she might crash they should have enough time to call in a may-day . but if the plane was a type of aircraft built for doing stunt's . there might be a reason why the transponder was not working . loose electrical connection or a dead battery .

I'm sure all of these questions and more have been pondered and gone over. A lot of time and effort is going into that search down there.

1. I don't know of a way to turn off the transponder by accident in most private aircraft while in flight. I don't think that is a possible scenario. I'm no pilot though, I could be mistaken.

2. Also, having enough time to call in a may-day is like saying that the police should have enough time to take a well aimed shot at a suspect's hand and shoot the gun out of it so they don't have to kill anyone. In the real world, things don't always happen that way, and Mr. Murphy is always there to harass you. The last few aircraft crashes that I know of, there was NO mayday ever called. Obviously, things happen fast and the pilot was probably trying to save the plane instead of fiddle with the radio.

3. I don't think the pilot is alive anymore. Very remote terrain where they lost contact with him and his chances of surviving the impact and then surviving the terrain are not good. I wish him luck if he's still out there. I also feel bad for his family.

 

[crayon]

Re: Missing Plane

did the doctor turn off the transponder by accident or did he really crash.

A transponder is not needed to provide ATC with a target on the radar screen. Usually. There are exceptions ...

anyone should know if a pilot think's he/she might crash they should have enough time to call in a may-day.

yeah. Just like my dad thinks that he'll have enough time to put on his seat belt before he collides with something in an accident.

 

[twolf816]

CAP

a civil air patrol plane went down last week around my town. anyone know how many planes theyve lost total?

 

[CommShrek]

Re: CAP

a civil air patrol plane went down last week around my town. anyone know how many planes theyve lost total?

Around your town in Louisiana? Okay. As far as I know, no CAP planes have went down during that search. Are you asking how many CAP aircraft have ever crashed for the entire national CAP or just for Louisiana or in Oklahoma only? Clarify.

 

[K5MAR]

F2, nothing heard on that freq up here. Got any other confirmed CAP freqs for Oklahoma?

Mark S.

 

[nd5y]

This was posted on another group a while back.
I have no idea how accurate is is.

Tom

CAP channels above 26 MHz
VHF/UHF radio channels & uses
NATIONWIDE C.A.P. CHANNELS:

AM 026.6000 Search and Rescue Mobile-to-Mobile
AM 026.6100 Search and Rescue Portables
AM 026.6200 Search and Rescue "Alpha two-six"
FM 038.5000 Aircraft Operations "FM-38"*
FM 041.7000 Aircraft Operations "FM-41"*
AM 119.3500 Aircraft Calling Channel
AM 120.8500 Search and Rescue Intersystem
AM 121.5000 AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY CHANNEL (V.H.F.)
AM 121.6000 Practice Emergency Beacon (ELT-2)
AM 121.7750 Practice Emergency Beacon (ELT-1)
AM 122.0000 Flight Watch Nationwide Channel
AM 122.7000 Glider Operations "Air Boss"
AM 122.8000 Glider Operations "Air Boss"
AM 122.9000 Link to Government Aircraft
AM 123.1000 Search and Rescue
AM 123.4500 Aircraft Calling Channel
FM 143.7750 Search and Rescue "VHF-775"
FM 143.9500 Search and Rescue "VHF-950"
FM 148.1250 Repeater OUTPUT (CAP chennel 2) SECONDARY OPERATIONS CH.
FM 148.1375 Simplex (CAP channel 3)
FM 148.1500 Repeater OUTPUT (CAP channel 1) MAIN OPERATIONS CHANNEL
FM 148.5375 Search and Rescue (Mostly Aircraft)
FM 148.9750 Search and Rescue
FM 149.5375 Search and Rescue ("High-Bird")
FM 149.9000 Primary Packet Channel
FM 149.9250 Secondary Packet Channel*
FM 163.1250 Flight Line Operations*
FM 163.1500 Flight Line Operations*
AM 243.0000 AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY CHANNEL (U.H.F.)
FM 419.6375 Urban Search and Rescue
FM 419.6875 CAP Urban Point-to-Point
FM 419.9875 Low-power Point-to-Point*

NOTES

1) A Star (*) indicates that that frequency is not
active in all states, or may be shared with another
NTIA Government-band user.

2) Most CAP units are equipped with radios that can
operate on frequencies outside the government bands.
For example: a CAP aircraft may have a CAP radio, a
137-174 MHz VHF-FM radio (used to talk to other
SAR agencies) and a VHF-AM radio. The VHF-AM radio
would cover 118-137 MHz, this way the aircraft can
talk to other aircraft that only have standard VHF-AM
aircraft band radios (usually on the 120.85, 122.90,
and 123.10 MHz search and rescue frequencies.)

3) Most CAP vans and trucks have radios that operate
in the 143, 148, 149 and 163 MHz segments only, so these
are by far the most active of the channels.

4) CAP and NTIA have just begun installing the new
26 MHz AM radio gear in CAP vans, so right now, there
is very little activity on those channels, as well
as the 419 MHz channels.

 

[edwftx]

OK Plane Found after a month

According to CNN web page report the plane was found by rancher near holdenville this morning 2/15