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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: SNET: 4/8 Air Force Searches for Jet (fwd)

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>.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 
>
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