Mysterious “Plane Seats” Wash Ashore in New Jersey – IOTW Report

Mysterious “Plane Seats” Wash Ashore in New Jersey

GP: Surfer Mathew Jacob made a mysterious discovery while checking out the surfing conditions in Margate, New Jersey.

While checking out the waves, Jacob spotted what appeared to be plane seats washed ashore.

Jacob took a video of his discovery and posted it on Instagram with the caption, “I think I just found plane seats washed up on the Jersey shore.”

Shortly after making the discovery, Jacob contacted the police, and detectives are now investigating the mysterious seats.

Many commentators on Jacob’s video quickly claimed the seats were from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 or the wreckage of the TWA Flight 800. more

16 Comments on Mysterious “Plane Seats” Wash Ashore in New Jersey

  1. Read to the end of the story and you’ll find *yawn* this last paragraph:

    A preliminary report from a local officer at the scene stated, “A detective did some further research and found that decommissioned railcar seats are typically stripped down to the metal parts and taken out to see and dumped to help build artificial reefs.”

    Train seats. They’re train seats.

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  2. This is more plausible:
    From the instagram comments – “They are from a retired Cape May Ferry that they sink to make reefs in that area. Mystery solved.”
    Everything in an airplane is designed to be as light at possible – aluminum or magnesium. Not steel.
    Search “airplane seat frame” and what you will find look totally different.

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  3. I’ve ridden on a quite a few trains in my lifetime. I have never seen four in a row ever. I remember riding the Cape May ferry and there were huge sections of seating in the lower decks.

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  4. They are definitely from The Odyssey of Flight 33
    Poor bastards couldn’t get back to 1961.
    Trust me…

    Epilogue:
    A Global jet airliner, en route from London to New York on an uneventful afternoon in the year 1961, but now reported overdue and missing, and by now, searched for on land, sea, and air by anguished human beings, fearful of what they’ll find.
    But you and I know where she is.
    You and I know what’s happened.
    So if some moment, any moment, you hear the sound of jet engines flying atop the overcast—engines that sound searching and lost—engines that sound desperate—shoot up a flare or do something.
    That would be Global 33 trying to get home—from The Twilight Zone.

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