Time: Mon Apr 07 17:01:29 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA27249; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 12:02:44 -0700 (MST) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA26582; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 12:02:34 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 16:44:43 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: SNET: 4/8 Air Force Searches for Jet (fwd) <snip> >.c The Associated Press > >By MICHELLE BOORSTEIN > >PHOENIX (AP) - Guided by tips from sky-gazing citizens, officials hunted by >air and land in Colorado for an $8.8 million Air Force jet that was never >supposed to leave southern Arizona. > >Several sightings Wednesday near Montrose, Colo., reinforced the idea that >the missing A-10 Thunderbolt flew into Colorado, Air Force officials said >Sunday. The plane disappeared that afternoon going from its Tucson base to a >training run in southwestern Arizona. > >Radar data released by Davis-Monthan Air Force Base showed an unidentified >plane's steady path northeast before fading near Telluride, Colo., south of >Montrose. Hundreds of residents called with credible tips that indicated the >plane was the A-10, said Col. Barry Barksdale, commander of the 355th Fighter >Wing at Davis-Monthan. > >The National Guard, Air Force, Civil Air Patrol and local sheriffs in >southwestern Colorado were to continue the search today. > >Air Force officials had no explanation why the aircraft and pilot - Capt. >David Button - apparently headed in the wrong direction. Barksdale said >Button could have become incapacitated from something like a blackout or >heart attack and engaged the plane's autopilot. > >Button also could have ejected, though officials said the ejection seat would >have sent out a homing beacon device. Even if Button did eject, history shows >it would not be impossible for the plane to land safely on its own. > >The Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio, has a display on a 1970 accident in >which a plane ejected its pilot after entering a spin, recovered unpiloted >and made a belly landing in a snow-covered field near Big Sandy, Mont. > >``It's something that's one in a million,'' said base Staff Sgt. Rian Clawson >said. > >He also refuted various theories, including that someone sabotaged the plane >to get its four 500-pound bombs, which were unlikely to explode on impact. > >``Anything you can think of has probably been looked at,'' Clawson said. >``But the evidence so far doesn't indicate any of these wild hypotheses, like >he was trying to steal it, or he went off to Telluride to go skiing.'' > >AP-NY-04-07-97 0740EDT > >Copyright 1997 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP >news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise >distributed without prior written authority of The Associated Press. > > >-> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@world.std.com >-> Posted by: Finchley@aol.com > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ========================================================================
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