Strange Circumstances Surround the One Plane Allowed to Take Off During Atlanta Airport Blackout
Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is often described as the world’s busiest. More people travel through this airport, which is a hub for flights connecting the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. On Sunday, December 17, a blackout saw this hectic hub come to a total shutdown. Air traffic was stalled, hundreds of flights were canceled, passengers were stranded, and all ground operations came to halt for as much as 10 hours. That’s an eternity for an airport, especially during the intense holiday travel season.
Investigators blamed the blackout on a fire in the basement. However, some observers have noticed that while all traffic had come to a halt, flight controllers allowed a lone plane to proceed on schedule. The flight involves an airplane known as “4X-ICB.” It’s a cargo plane that had arrived in Atlanta from Mexico City mere minutes before the blackout. (Source: “4chan Users Find Evidence Atlanta Airport Blackout Was Part Of Intentional Cover-Up,” Squawker, December 20, 2017.)
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It took off from that same airport at 6:27 p.m., while the power outage continued; the power would only return at midnight. No flight was permitted to take off until 12:56 a.m. So, what could possibly have been so special about 4X-ICB? For starters, the aircraft is not operated by a U.S. carrier, which should raise suspicions. Rather, the cargo airline CAL Cargo Airlines Ltd operated the flight. Why is a foreign-owned plane allowed to bypass flight rules that affected largely U.S. owned and operated airlines, especially Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE:DAL)?
Was the Blackout a Decoy to Allow CAL Plane to Load Nuclear Weapons?
Note that CAL owns the Liege Air Cargo Handling Services (LACHS) company based out of Liege, Belgium. Former Israeli government officials serve on LACHS’s board of directors. (Source: “Board of Directors,” Liege Air Cargo Handling Services, last accessed December 20, 2017.)
According to Squawker, LACHS does not need the presence of a customs agent to load and offload planes. So far, we have a blackout that occurs just after CAL’s “Boeing 747” lands. Then the plane may or may not have been loaded or unloaded—without the presence and awareness of any U.S. customs officials—only to take off while all other traffic had been grounded. In other words, anything could have been loaded onto that CAL flight.
The fact that no other media outlet has been considering the oddity of the circumstances surrounding CAL Cargo Airlines and the Atlanta airport blackout has fueled speculation. The rumors have focused on the idea that nuclear weapons might have been loaded on the plane; with the power down, nuclear devices would not have triggered any alarms. The rising tensions in the Middle East and previous experiences with Israeli flights are being presented as the motive. (Source: Squawker, op cit.)
Yet the point has little to do with nuclear weapons or forbidden substances or wanted criminals having been loaded aboard the CAL flight. Neither Squawker nor anyone else is suggesting that there is incontrovertible evidence to this effect. Rather, the problem is that a stubborn refusal to investigate as odd an incident as this is fueling speculation.
Certainly, the episode is suspicious. Add to that that CAL Cargo specializes in the transport of difficult products that may require controlled temperatures such as live animals, pharmaceuticals, large items, and hazardous goods. This only serves to raise the suspicion surrounding the events at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on December 18. The nuclear weapon transport suggestion cannot be proven—nor can it be disproven.
