According to anonymous NTSB and FAA sources, last month's plane crash that
killed local pilot Fred Collins and part-timer socialite Dolores Thorne has
been reclassified as a "possible aerial felony under Federal law," and the
FBI office in Denver has been called in to help investigate.
"It's a process of exclusion," the source stated. "If there's no pilot error,
and no accidental mechanical failure, and no weather interference, we are
left with the very real possibility of deliberate third party human action
as the cause of the event."
Asked if this meant there was a bomb aboard Collins's Cessna, or if the plane
was brought down by a surface-to-air missile of some kind, the course declined
to speculate.
However, rumors persist among workers at the Telluride Airport that solid
evidence of mechanical sabotage has been uncovered. Said one airport worker,
"You know the old Watergate thing, 'Follow the money?' Well, this time it's
a case of 'Follow the G.P.S. unit.' Obvious, no? Wrong course, no fly over
the pass, and your proverbial ass is grass. No disrespect."
The Federal sources declined to comment on which of the plane's occupants
may have been the target, if indeed the plane's downing was a homicide.
This paper promises more revelations soon.
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