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Friday, April 09, 2004


Nothing beats a beautiful spring day in south east Texas for some lazy beach combing in Galveston. A cool gulf breeze in your hair, the warm sand oozing between your toes, and the wreckage of unidentified aircraft bobbing in the surf.
Part of the cockpit from an old Bell helicopter has washed ashore on Galveston Island, but the barnacle-encrusted wreckage gave authorities few clues to the craft's demise.

Law officers said the helicopter had not crashed recently and its origin was unknown.

The U.S. Coast Guard, called in to take charge of the wreck, confirmed with the Federal Aviation Administration that the copter had not been reported missing from any recent crash and its ownership could not immediately be determined.

But neither the Coast Guard nor any other agency has expressed interest in the discovery or accepted responsibility for hauling it away.

The piece of fuselage was left in the sand and remained partially submerged in the Gulf of Mexico early today.
Kinda makes that sand dollar I found last August look like a steaming pile of seagull crap.



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