HAVE YOU SEEN THIS SAILOR?

by Sail-World Cruising on 17 Nov 2006 Have you seen this man? Sailors in the Pacific will want to be aware that Wolfgang Bohringer, pictured left, is on the run in his yacht, having fled from Kiribati about two months ago. You can go a long way in two months of sailing, and there are no current indication of his direction. The Australian Broadcasting Commission yesterday revealed that this tiny Pacific nation wants help from nearby countries to counter terrorism after US authorities uncovered a bizarre plot by Bohringer to set up a flight training school on one of its remote islands.

The FBI (US Federal Bureau of Investigations) suspects the that Wolfgang Bohringer may have had links with 9/11 mastermind Mohammed Atta, and has confirmed that Bohringer is a ‘person of interest’.

According to Mad Cow the story in the South Pacific began after Bohringer showed on a yacht up a year ago at tiny and remote Fanning Island, which lacks much basic infrastructure suitable for a flight training school - not even an airfield.

Suspicions were aroused by Bohringer's announced his intention to open the school to teach pilots to fly DC3’s, a vintage aircraft much-favored for its ability to fly into dirt airstrips by pilots carrying contraband cargo like weapons and drugs.

Now he’s gone missing on his yacht, and everyone from Kiribati to Australia to the American FBI would like to find him.