[meteorite-list] re: Vitim event (2)

From: Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:21:08 2004
Message-ID: <001c01c353b6$660012e0$c5cc86c2_at_HAL>

With regard to the Vitim "impact" event and possible causes of the fire
damaged trees in the area: below is a piece of text from Andrei Olkhovatov's
June 13 posting to the Meteorobs list, citing the Kosmopoisk expedition
leader V. Chernobrov. These lines have apparently remained without further
attention, but should they? They are:

"it was the heard by them version about the fact that immediately after the
fall of the meteorite in
the same region suffered catastrophe the aircraft (according to precise now
data, aircraft An-2 has burned after forced landing in the side from the
epicentre)"

If I understand this correctly, this says there has been an Antonov aircraft
on fire close to the location with forest fire damage near the day of the
Vitim bolide.

- Marco
Received on Sat 26 Jul 2003 04:41:27 PM PDT