Originally Posted by
Rob2160
I think too many people are now quick to believe it WAS a plastic bag...
There is absolutely no evidence it was a plastic bag. That is total speculation also.
I am sitting on the sidelines watching several different threads on this and it is very interesting to watch "Confirmation Bias" in action.
The very same people who "adamantly refused to accept it was a drone until they saw proof" are now fully accepting and even stating definitively that it WAS a plastic bag - yet there is still no proof.
Its too funny.
I don't know what the aircraft hit, (if anything) so I keep an open mind - we may actually never know.
As for the media - of course they will sensationalise reports like this - that is how they get viewers / readers and revenue.
If a confirmed drone impact ever occurs they will go nuts over it.
Leave it to Rob to go bringing good ol fashioned logic into this here thread ........
Without having any pieces of what was hit , from having been either embedded in the aircraft or positively identified as being from the incident found in the area on the ground , and of course no video of the incident , there really is no possible way to tell what it hit . Now there is no way also I'm gonna sit here and suggest the crew are lying or that both a Pilot and Copilot are seeing the same "floaters" * , if they say they hit something I believe them . There are penalties for filing false aviation incident reports , what Pilot or other flight crew are gonna risk their jobs filing a hoax report ? So they say they hit something , I believe that they believe they did , and they don't know what , I believe that too . Now the original assumption was of course a drone (just like how every case of the flu now is "possible Zika") when now the speculation has drifted to possibly being a plastic bag . If it was that small and yet still made a sound as it touched the front of the aircraft I honestly wonder if it could have been a Helium balloon with some kind of plastic emblem that might make a "tink" sound on contact ? You know , like one of those really big (like 3ish feet across) Helium Balloons with "HAPPY BIRTHDAY !" and a big ol plastic bow with the person's name on it at the closure where the string ties on to ? Hey , my speculation is just as good as the next guy's , especially since I've seen a LOT more Helium Balloons do the uncontrolled fly away thing than I've ever seen model aircraft do !
* Nice try on the "Two Pilots , One Floater" theory Sport , , , But , , No dice .....