Email, Inquiry

The publication of the Board of Enquiry report into the aviation incident reported to have occurred on then morning of 3/12/95 when a single engine Piper aircraft Reg No 9HABU disappeared with six people on board when enroute from Djerba in Tunisia to Malta makes for interesting reading not because of their decision to blame the pilot

Documentation, Newspaper, Theory

Copyright Don Mullan 3 December 2000 Word Count: 1630 Missing From Malta The story of an Irish family’s lonely but determined search to establish the truth about about his sons mysterious disappearance while returning home from the Libyan Oilfields in 1995. Introduction In the early hours of 3 December 1995 a light single-engine Piper Lance […]

Newspaper, Theory

DESMOND BOOMER has a wife and five children who live in Co. Down. He worked in the Libyan oil fields as an engineer for a company based in Britain. Because of international sanctions imposed against Libya by the UN in 1992 after the Lockerbie bombing, foreign workers were forced to fly to a neighbouring country and travel onwards to Libya by road. For Boomer and other workers, the preferred route was an international connection to Malta and a private flight from the island to Djerba Airport in Tunisia. Boomer was en route home to Belfast for his Christmas holidays when he disappeared. There are three possibilities concerning the disappearance. The first and one that cannot be easily dismissed is that Desmond Boomer and his fellow passengers were in the wrong place at the wrong time when Islamic fundamentalists arrived to exact revenge on their pilot, Carmel Bartolo, a marked man. Bartolo was the owner of a small private airline called Excelair. On November 5, 1995 precisely one month before Boomers mysterious disappearance a local Maltese newspaper Kull Hadd, in an act of gross journalistic

Newspaper

THE FATHER of an Ulsterman who mysteriously disappeared in Tunisia exactly five years ago, claims his son may still be ALIVE.
Former SDLP Belfast city councilor Cormac Boomer fears his son, Dessie. who was reportedly on a plane that vanished onto thin air, may have been caught up in a terrorist incident. He told the Extra last night that the information he had suggested his son could still be alive….somewhere. Its the latest twist in a saga that has led to one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in aviation history. Dessie Boomer has never been seen since disappearing with five fellow travellers in December 1995.

Irish Government, Letter

Letter from Brian Cowan, TD. An acknowledgement of letter to Brian Cowan TD from his Private Secretary, today I received a phone call from John Lawton. He began by telling me that your article in the IOS had generated enquiries from other papers, he then moved to discussing my request for government support in my quest for information about my missing son, he enquired was there not some other channels that I might consider using ie legal action against the authorities in Malta. I pointed out that I had already spent considerable amounts of my own resources in my ongoing search and could not undertake an action of this kind as it would involve hiring legal representation here and in Malta. Hence my reason for asking for government support.

Letter, Newspaper

Apology from Edmund Curran, Belfast Telegraph, the fact that the treatment of the story caused annoyance displayed a lack of sensitivity and for that I apologise

Letter

Letter from Jim Dougal, can provide contact details for local representatives. Has passed on correspondence to colleagues in Brussels in the Malta Unit of DG Enlargement and will be in contact as soon as he gets a reply.

Documentation, Letter, Politician

36 Riverdale Park North, Belfast BT11 9DL 25th January, 2001. Gerry Adams, MP., President of Sinn Fein, c/o Connelly House, Andersonstown Road, Belfast BT11 Dear Gerry, The enclosed documentation relates to the five year search for missing son Desmond and out efforts to establish the truth surrounding his disappearance in Djerba, Tunisia, on the 2nd […]

Letter, Politician

Letter from Jim Dougal, contact addresses for local MEPs

Letter, Newspaper

Letter from Daniel Aquilina to Padraig Coyle, expressing disappointment that Padriag had disregarded the instructions that Daniel had given regarding content.

Letter, Politician

Letter sent by Cormac Boomer to Gerry Adams MP for West Belfast. The enclosed documentation relates to the five year search for our missing son and our efforts to establish the truth surrounding his disappearance in Djerba on 5th December 1995.

Letter, Politician

Letter from Jim Dougal, EU unable to help. European Commission cannot intervene as falls within the competence of the British authorities who look after the interests of their citizens anywhere in the world. The European Commission cannot help in problems relating to one individual citizen of a Member State and therefore does not have a mandate to act.

Documentation, Letter, Politician

Letter To Ian K. Paisley MEP, from Cormac Boomer, providing documentation on the 5 year search for the missing passengers of 9HABU.

Inquiry, Irish Government, Politician

Response from Irish Foreign Affairs Office, Dublin. Taoiseach. Mr. Bertie Ahern T.D. asked the Maltese authorities whether there was anything else they could do to assist. There was no further advice nor assistance the Maltese authorities could offer. With regard to the Irish Government seeking an independent judicial inquiry the Minister considers that such a move would imply a lack of confidence in the report of the Board of Inquiry and that would be likely damage our relations with Malta.

Fax, Irish Government

Fax from Cormac Boomer to Don Mullan re: response from Dublin/Fianna Fail. Cormac expresses feeling ‘sick’ that government is more concerned about its good relations with Malta than it is about the loss of one of its citizens.

Letter, Politician

Letter from Geoff Williams asking Robin Cooke MP, the then British Foreign Secretary for support, the Government of Malta having applied to join the European Community should be called to account over the handling of the investigation into the disappearance of these two European Citizens

Letter, Politician

Letter to Cormac Boomer from Gerry Adams MP. I have asked Joan O’Connor of our International Department to make enquiries on your behalf and I will contact you again when I receive a reply.

Legal, Politician

Letter from Gerry Adams MP, informing Cormac Boomer that Joan O’Connor, Sinn Fein International Department, will make enquiries.

Letter, Politician

Letter from Jim Nicholson MEP to Cormac Boomer acknowledging receipt of a letter from Cormac Boomer

Inquiry, Letter

Letter To Jim Nicholson, from Cormac Boomer, advising the MEP that following his advice to contact the Foreign Office, neither the Boomer or Williams families had received a response from the respective Foreign Offices.

Letter, Politician

Letter To Gerry Adams MP, from Cormac Boomer, advising the MP that the response received from the Foreign Office in Dublin, was very disappointing.

Lockerbie, Newspaper

Article in The Malta Independent on a speech by Gaddafi after the sentencing of the Lockerbie tribunal where Gaddafi mentions Malta and Maltese persons throughout the speech.

Contacts

Letter from Donald Corrie MP, on behalf of Julie Donohue, to Robin Cooke MP, the then Secretary Of State For Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs, seeking an update on what, if any, progress has been made in forcing Malta to carry out a sea bed search for 9HABU

Contacts, Email, Search

Email from Cecilia to Julie Julie Donohue with contact details for Mandy Boomer and Cormac Boomer. Also discusses importance of necessary equipment being given to search the seabed for any remains of wreckage.

Search, Theory

Cormac Boomer documents how he came to believe that flight 9H-ABU did not crash in to the sea and how he and the other families started to look for answers other than those been given to them by the authorities.

Documentary, Email

Email from Don Mullan to Cormac Boomer and Garrett Harte regarding the possibility of getting an Irish or British TV station to make a documentary. Don is requesting details of the outbound flight and any further information relating to the passengers at the airport in Tunisia.

Documentary, Email

Cormac Boomer responds to Don Mullan’s request for more information on the outbound flight of 9HABU. Cormac mentions that Mr. Alfred Fenech stated at three separate sittings of the Board that based on the report of Rodger Wood the plane would be unable to start up and totally incapable of taking off. Cormac also details when Desmond and Matthew phoned home that weekend to confirm that the flight was delayed due to bad weather.

Contacts, EU

There are 87 UK Members of the European Parliament. Considered as one constituency, Northem Ireland elects three Members for a period of five years. Their role is to represent their constituency in the European Parliament; monitor proposals made by the European Commission and decisions made by the Council of Ministers. The Parliament can also suggest […]

Letter, Politician

Letter from Geoff Williams to Prime Minister, Tony Blair. Geoff is highlighting that a response to his letter to Robin Cooke would have a matter of courtesy.

Letter, Politician

Response From Downing Street to a letter sent by Geoff Williams. Just says the request is being given some attention

Documentary, Email

Email thread between Don Mullan and Cormac Boomer regarding the proposal for the making of a television documentary

Email, Search

Email from Daniel Aquilina, regarding a friend who is working on tracing old World War II wrecks on the Maltese seabed and is interested n helping out.

Inquiry, Lockerbie, Newspaper

Article by Paul Foot, published in Private Eye, on the Camp Ziest, inquiry in to the Lockerbie disaster.

Email, Newspaper

Email from Janet Anderson, requesting information on an article in Belfast Telegraph in 1997.

Letter, Newspaper

Fabricated Sunday Life ‘Movie Bid’ article suggesting that Hollywood movie moguls were vying for the rights to make a movie regarding the disappearance of 9H-ABU.

Newspaper

Letter from Cormac Boomer to the Editor of the Sunday Life newspaper seeking an apology for the ‘Movie Bid’ article.

Newspaper

Correspondence with Madden & Finucane Solicitors regarding complaint made to Press Complaint Commission about article published in Sunday Life.

Documentation, Newspaper

Press Complaint Form, completed by Cormac Boomer, regarding the Sunday Life ‘Movie Bid Over Mystery Flight’ article.

Newspaper

Ramadan Abdatlah Shallah, the man chosen as leader of the anti-Israel group, Islamic Jihad, helped run a controversial US think tank on Islamic affairs, an expert on radical groups. Steven Emerson, the producer of the PBS documentary “Jahad in America” said Shallah was administration director of the World and Islamic studies Enterprise (WISE) that was once associated with the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Documentation, Search

Information sent by Cormac Boomer to Don Mullan re: Departure time of 9H-ABU on outbound flight.