The Telluride Reservations and Information Hotline has been deluged by phone inquiries about last week's plane crash that killed two prominent Telluridians.

According to Hotline Manager Rae Poe, calls to the Hotline's 800 number averaged at least 50 a day, after a story on the television program Big Buzz suggested possible sabotage in the plane's downing.

Quoting anonymous FAA and DEA sources, Big Buzz stated that pilot Fred "Flea" Collins and his former company, Free Air, were heavily involved in drug and weapons trafficking out of their Marfa, Texas headquarters.

According to Big Buzz, Collins had been involved in CIA drugs and weapons flights to the Nicaraguan Contras, and they "owed him Big-Time-- he knew where all the bodies were buried." The sources surmise that Collins's plane was sabotaged by someone trying to "hush him up", either from the CIA or from the Mexican drug cartels along the border.

Hotline Manager Poe stated that most callers wanted to know "if there was some kind of drug war going on in the skies over Telluride." "All but a couple were reassured when we told them that last week's plane accident was just that, an accident. We told them that they're a lot safer flying into Telluride than they are taking their dog for a walk at eleven p.m. back home in L.A., Detroit or Phoenix."

Marshall Tremaine confirmed that aerial sabotage experts from the FBI have been called in to look over the plane wreckage. "It's more a formality than anything else." Tremaine explained. "It doesn't mean anything. I mean, a plane goes down in perfect weather, with an expert pilot in the cockpit. You've got to look at everything, every possibility. Hell, next they'll call out a bunch of Trustafarians with divining rods. Look, this is off the record, right? No? Hell, no comment."