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.