Mystery aircraft debris?

michael barnette · **Joined:** Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:51 pm **Posts:** 55

Can anyone identify what this might be? Thinking it might be related to an aircraft perhaps? This was found in deep water in the Gulf of Mexico, roughly west of the Tampa Bay mouth. It looks like it might be aluminum structure. Supposedly there are other pieces in the vicinity, but the diver only came across this one piece....

eze240 · **Joined:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:32 pm **Posts:** 117

Looks almost like part of a engine mount.....perhaps part of a B-47? Didn't one crash in the area?

CoastieJohn · **Joined:** Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:37 pm **Posts:** 1380

eze240 wrote:

Looks almost like part of a engine mount.....perhaps part of a B-47? Didn't one crash in the area?

I kinda thought that too for a bit. Then I thought where's the engine and why is the ring still in good shape? With the evenly spaced holes in the metal it looks like something from an airplane. Picture it standing vertical inside the plane against a bulkhead, could it be a rack for an large O2 bottle?

Fouga23 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2015 2:25 am

Canopy frame?

JohnB · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2015 7:45 am

Without knowing where in the Gulf, it could be anything.
Yes, B-47s went down there (IIRC, usually close to McCoy...Orlando for you young ones) but so have everything else from drug runners to F-100, F-102, and F-4 drones...not to mention Navy trainers out of Pensacola.

shrike · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2015 11:20 am

I don't really get a sense of scale from the pictures, but Ryan Firebee leaps to mind.

CoastieJohn · **Joined:** Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:37 pm **Posts:** 1380

Those look like mostly lion fish swimming around it. You can figure out how big those are to get a scale (slight pun) of the debris.

davidwomacks · **Joined:** Sat Aug 04, 2012 2:34 pm **Posts:** 195

Lionfish I hate those things,get a spear and take those things out!! They are a horrible invasive spices.

michael barnette · **Joined:** Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:51 pm **Posts:** 55

Sorry for the late reply - was offshore this weekend. The pictured debris was found off Ft. Myers, Florida, around 60 nmi offshore or so.

wendovertom · **Posted:** Mon Jun 08, 2015 3:37 pm

Stupid Lionfish. . . . the part looks like a canopy to me but then watch it turn out to be something off of a freighter. . .

Tom P.

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