Recovered/Located UK - Cardiff - 3 Women & 2 Men Missing, leaving nightclub approx 2am, Newport, 4 March 2023

[NextSprint]

NPAS helicopter is in the air, they seem to have briefly looked at Porthcawl but are being very detailed in east Cardiff.

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[Earthwindfire]

NPAS helicopter is in the air, they seem to have briefly looked at Porthcawl but are being very detailed in east Cardiff.

I don’t know the area but I would have Thought East Cardiff would be quite built up so less likely for an un noticed car crash.

 

[monkeychicken88]

I don’t know the area but I would have Thought East Cardiff would be quite built up so less likely for an un noticed car crash.

I would have thought so, too!

 

[NextSprint]

I don’t know the area but I would have Thought East Cardiff would be quite built up so less likely for an un noticed car crash.

Perhaps a hidden car. They are being very thorough around there by the looks of it.

 

[Shellie85]

Unfortunately , I feel the car has crashed or went into water . I can’t imagine 5 young adults at that age not have spoken to anyone or been active on social media in all that time .

 

[Froggypizza]

NPAS helicopter is in the air, they seem to have briefly looked at Porthcawl but are being very detailed in east Cardiff.

What app or website is the screenshot from, please?

 

[Marysmith]

Unfortunately , I feel the car has crashed or went into water . I can’t imagine 5 young adults at that age not have spoken to anyone or been active on social media in all that time .

Water makes sense… they would all have to be gravely injured for no one to get help or call anyone.

 

[NextSprint]

What app or website is the screenshot from, please?

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[NextSprint]

It appears to have circled a few hotels in the area for the last 10 mins I've been watching.

 

[rightsaidfred]

NPAS helicopter is in the air, they seem to have briefly looked at Porthcawl but are being very detailed in east Cardiff.

Which website is that?

Looking solely at your screenshot, they haven't looked at Porthcawl or the M4 / A48 corridor at all, they've just taken off from the airfield at St Athan and have gone very directly to East Cardiff. It's possible they've used ANPR and know they came off the M4 around Cardiff but don't have further detail after that.

I don’t know the area but I would have Thought East Cardiff would be quite built up so less likely for an un noticed car crash.

It certainly is, but as ever even in urban areas it's possible for a car to go somewhere a passerby won't spot - like the case someone else mentioned upthread of the man whose car was found in undergrowth on a roundabout.

As an example, this is in East Cardiff on the route Google suggests is the fastest from Trecco Bay to Llanederyrn. It's a fast road with undergrowth you could easily go into
Google Maps

I'm not sure how well frequented the footpath is below (though I can't say it's ever popped up on my list of places I should take the dog to), but at best a dog walker might spot the car along there if it had left the road at that point.

Just an example of where the car could have left the road and not been noticed in a fairly built up area.

 

[NextSprint]

Which website is that?

Looking solely at your screenshot, they haven't looked at Porthcawl or the M4 / A48 corridor at all, they've just taken off from the airfield at St Athan and have gone very directly to East Cardiff. It's possible they've used ANPR and know they came off the M4 around Cardiff but don't have further detail after that.

You are correct, I stand corrected, it didn't even touch Porthcawl.

Edited to add: I posted the link to the live tracker upthread, it's ADSB Exchange.

 

[rightsaidfred]

You are correct, I stand corrected, it didn't even touch Porthcawl.

Edited to add: I posted the link to the live tracker upthread, it's ADSB Exchange.

Thanks I think you posted the link before while I was writing my last post!

 

[suzyjackson]

Water makes sense… they would all have to be gravely injured for no one to get help or call anyone.

That is the obvious explanation sadly but surely phone tracking would be able to pinpoint where all 5 phones disappeared from their networks. How could the police track the movements of Nicola Bulley's phone so closely but not these ones. Something seems a little off here IMO

 

[NextSprint]

That is the obvious explanation sadly but surely phone tracking would be able to pinpoint where all 5 phones disappeared from their networks. How could the police track the movements of Nicola Bulley's phone so closely but not these ones. Something seems a little off here IMO

You're right, they could do that, but won't until/unless it's a High Risk missing person.

 

[rightsaidfred]

Seems to be progressively circling the Wentloog Avenue area now, which is one possible route they could have taken if they continued from Llanederyrn back to Maesglas, and certainly provides places a car could leave the road and not be noticed due to undergrowth.

 

[tesni]

I'm surprised this hasn't made BBC News website by now. I know people go missing all the time (sadly), but FIVE people?

 

[Firstsnow4]

Seems to be progressively circling the Wentloog Avenue area now, which is one possible route they could have taken if they continued from Llanederyrn back to Maesglas, and certainly provides places a car could leave the road and not be noticed due to undergrowth.

Looks as though they are also circling the coast area - are there cliffs in that area does anyone know?

 

[NextSprint]

Looks as though they are also circling the coast area - are there cliffs in that area does anyone know?

Not there exactly, that's a big marshy beach.

 

[suzyjackson]

You're right, they could do that, but won't until/unless it's a High Risk missing person.

I can't link as it's a family members FB but thankfully I've now read that the police are tracking the phones.

 

[NextSprint]

I can't link as it's a family members FB but thankfully I've now read that the police are tracking the phones.

That's great news.