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^Select for FOCUS or DeliveryW O R L D N E W S TONIGHT WITH PETER JE N N I N GS , APRIL 11, 1997

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TYPE: PACKAGESECTION: NEWSLENGTH: 686 wordsHEADLINE: AIR FORCE GIVES DETAILS OF MISSING A-10 ATTACK PLANEBYLINE: TOM FOREMAN, PETER JENNINGSHIGHLIGHT:IT SAYS THE PILOT W AS IN CONTROL BEFORE PLANE VANISHEDBODY:PETER JENNINGS: The Air Force today has given its most detailed account yet of what itknows about the A-10 attack plane that has been missing for nine days now.(vo ice-over) We ve known for a while that Captain Craig Button took off from Tucson,Arizona, a week ago Wednesday and disappeared. And we know they ve been searching nearVail, Colorado.(on camera) Today, the Air Force has made it clear that Captain Button was in control andno t unconscious before his plane disappeared. Here s ABC s Tom Foreman.TOM FOREMAN, ABC News: (voice-over) For more than a week, searchers have been fightingsnowstorms, bitter cold and low clouds trying to find the missing warplane. Today, Pentagonofficials confirmed that the plane made several sharp turns in the minutes before itdisappeared, suggesting pilot Craig Button purposely changed course.Maj. Gen. DONALD PETERSON, Air Force: Whether, you know, he was fully under control ornot, I couldn t speculate, but we do believe that the airplane was not flying itself.

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Daily News (New York) April 12 , 1997, SaturdayCopyright 1997 Daily News, L.P.Daily News (New York)

April 12, 1997, SaturdaySECTION: News; Pg. 6LENGTH: 430 wordsHEADLINE: ZIGZAG DEATH FLIGHTAIR FORCE PILOT'S COURSE CLOUDS THEORIESBYLINE: By ROBERT GEARTY in New York and RICHARD SISK in WashingtonBODY:Capt. Craig Button flew his warplane in a zigzag course over the Colorado Rockies as it ranout of fuel, and witnesses later reported hearing explosions and seeing smoke, the Air Forcesaid yesterday."I cannot say why he may have taken this action," said Maj. Gen. Donald Peterson at aPentagon briefing. "This is a little bit abnormal."Search teams in the rugged terrain southwest of Vail, Colo., were investigating about 20witness reports of "explosions, noise and smoke" in the area where the Massapequa,L.I.,pilot's A-10 attack jet vanished from radar April 2.Peterson said the last radar track of Button's plane came at 1:39 p.m. Colorado time near12,500-foot NewYork Mountain. "It could have flamed out at that point, it was at a very lowfuel stage," Peterson said.Fierce snowstorms have hindered the search for wreckage, he said.Radar reports showed the plane varied altitude and turned several times on its 800-milejourney after the A-10 mysteriously peeled away from a three-plane formation over Arizonaand flew northeast to Colorado without explanation.Peterson said the route flown cast doubt on the theory that Button may have put the planeon automatic pilot just before blacking out."Whether it was ully under control, I couldn't speculate, but the plane wasnot flying itself,"Peterson said."Unfortunately, we may never know" what caused the disappearance, Peterson said. But noevidence has surfaced that Button was psychologically unstable or may have been involved ina bizarre plot to steal the plane and its four 500-pound bombs.Friends and teachers on Long Island, where Button grew up, also dismissed reports that hemight have been upset over his mother's recent conversion to the anti-war beliefs of theJehovah's Witnesses.

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C N N N E W S D A Y , April 14, 1997Content and programming copyright 1997 Cable News Network Transcribed under license byFederal Document Clearing House, Inc. Formatting copyright 1997 Federal DocumentClearing House, Inc. All rights reserved. Noquotes from the materials contained herein maybe used in any media without attribution to Cable News Network. This transcript may not becopied or resold in any media.CNN

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Transcript # 97041402V11TYPE: LIVE REPORTSECTION: News; DomesticLENGTH: 86 9 wordsHEADLINE: No New Developments In Search For Missing Air Force PilotGUESTS: LEXIS-NEXIS Related Topics + Full Article + Related Topics OverviewThis document contains no targeted Topics.BYLINE: Sonia Ruseler, Charles ZeweHIGHLIGHT:Another day, and very few new clues to the Rocky Mountain mystery. The Air Force is now inits 13th day of searching for a pilot who disappeared with his A-10 jet during a routinetraining flight.BODY:SONIA RUSELER, CNN ANCHOR: Another day, an d very few new clues to the Rocky Mountainmystery. The Air Force is now in its 13th day of searching for a pilot who disappeared withhis A-10 jet during a routine training flight.Well, CNN's Charles Zewe is at the latest -- was at the latest briefing about an hour ago.Charles, what did you learn?CHARLES Z E W E , CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Sonia, we learned that there is still no traceyet of Captain Craig Button and his A-10 Thunderbolt that vanished onApril 2nd. Air Forceplanes and helicopters are back in the air again today searching a very wide area, about 20miles south/southwest of Vail, Colorado, where it is believed possible that the plane went inon April 2nd, when it veered off course on a routine training mission out of Tucson, Arizonaand then headed up toward the Vail area.Radar, both civilian and military radar, tracked it into the Vail area, and it's believed thatthe plane may have gone down in this area you're looking at right now: in the rugged White

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Chicago Tribune, April 18, 1997Copyright 1997 Chicago Tribune CompanyChicago Tribune

April 18, 1997 Friday, NORTH SPORTS FINAL EDITIONSECTION: NEWS; Pg. 18; ZONE: NLENGTH: 473 wordsHEADLINE: TO P GENERAL DOUBTS MISSING JE T LINKED TO OKLAHOMA ANNIVERSARY;BUT PRECAUTIONS STILL WILL BE TAKEN, HE SAYSBYLINE: Associated Press.DATELINE: WASHINGTONBODY:The nation's top general discounted a suggestion Thursday that the mysteriousdisappearance of an Air Force A-10 is connected to the Oklahoma City bombing.But he said military commanders will be warned to take precautions just days before thesecond anniversary of the bombing."It is prudent to re-evaluate the security situation" at military installations, Gen. JohnShalikashvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at the Pentagon."W e will remind all commanders of the upcoming anniversary (Saturday), and we'll urgethem to take the measures appropriate in their particular locations," the general said.Shalikashvili wasquestioned about theories that Capt. Craig Button ~or some dissidentgroup stole the bomb-laden A-10 to carry out some kind of incident at the Denver trial ofTimothy McVeigh, who is accused in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Oklahoma Cityfederal building that killed 168 people."I do not have enough information to lead me to believe there's somehow a connectionbetween that incident in Oklahoma City . . . and the disappearance of this airplane," thegeneral said.Fo r two weeks, the Air Force has used everything from high-tech satellites to spy planes withsensitive radars to search for Button, who vanished April 2 with the $9 million warplanearmed with four 500-pound bombs.Shalikashvili said the military has not overlooked the idea that the plane might have landedsomewhere, and "we have looked at a number of places where that could have happened, sofar without any results."The Army general said he does not want to "add to the speculation" and that his concern isthat everything is done to find Button and his jet.

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Warplane rumors are downplayedBy Lisa Hoffman, Scripps H oward News serviceWASHINGTON - Top Pentagon officialsyesterday slapped down speculation that th edisappearance of an Air Force warplane is connectedwith either the upcoming anniversary of theOklahom a City bombin g or the trial of two suspectsnow under way .The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen.John Sha likashvili, said a possible security threat atth e command center for U.S. air defenses has comean d apparently gone, and he dismissed similarspeculation that there was any connection with th emissing plane or bombing anniversary.Security had been increased this week at theU.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Comm and, or N O RA D , in Colorado Springs, Colo.,after officials learned of a security threat, which they would not describe.

"They simply had some information that someone w as going to try to threaten th e facility and so theytook th e necessary precaution. Since then ... that time ha s come and gone," Gen. Shalikashvili said. "Isuspect that in the n ot too distant future they will return back to normal."He and chief Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon also dismissed th e notion that there w as somesinister l ink between th e NORAD alert , th e trial in Denver of Oklahoma City bombing suspect TimothyMcVeigh, th e second ann iversary Saturday of the bombing, and the disappearance April 2 of Air ForceCapt. Craig Butto n. The pilot disappeared with his A-10 attack je t loaded with a ton of conventionalbombs.The fact that Capt. Bu tton 's plane myste riously disappeared from radar tracking in Colorado spawn edtheories trad ed on the Internet, and even in the mainstream media, that th e confluence of events might havesome significance. On e conspiracy theory, based on no discernible evidence, posited that Capt. Button w asheading to Denver to bomb th e federal courthouse where M r. McVeigh is on trial.M r. Bacon scoffed at the speculation, saying, "Everybody seems to believe that a crash is the most likelyoutcome of wha t happened to this plane."Gen. Shalikashvili agreed. "I do not have enough information to lead me to believe that there'ssomehow a connection between that incident in Oklahoma City .. . and the disappearance of this airplane,"he said.Even so, military and civilian authorities are inve stigating other possibilities, inclu din g that C apt.Button might have landed th e plane somewhere."W e have looked at a number of places where that could have happened, so far withou t any results,"Gen. S halika shvili said.Capt. Button, 32, disappeared while on a t ra in ing flight over th e Arizona desert with three otherwarplanes. Hundred s of witnesses and radar tracking indicated that the plane flew northeast for nearly twohours before falling off the radar tapes about 12 miles southwest of Vail in the rugged Rocky Mountain

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FDCH Federal Department and Agency Documents October 27, 1997; MondayCopyright 1997 Federal Document Clearing House, Inc.FDCH Federal Department and Agency Documents

October 27, 1997; MondayLENGTH: 860 wordsAGENCY: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

SIC-MAJOR-GROUP: 09 - General Classification

HEADLINE: SUICIDE SUSPECTED IN A-10 CRASH

CONTACT: 703/545-6700

BODY:Released: Oct 27, 1997

Suicide suspected in A-10 crash

WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Air Combat Command has released theAccident Investigation Board report of the April 2 crash of an A-10 near Eagle, Colo., that killed its pilot, Capt. Craig Button.The Oct. 27 report concludes that -- for undetermined reasons andlack of credible evidence to the contrary ~the pilot apparentlycommitted suicide by crashing his aircraft into the side of amountain.

TheA-10, assigned to the 355th Wing at Davis-Monthan AirForce Base, Ariz., was part of a three-ship formation on aroutine training mission to familiarize pilots with the deliveryof live ordnance on a bombing range. The mishap aircraft wascarrying four, 500-pound conventional bombs and 575 rounds of 30mm training ammunition.Just before the formation reached the range, the flightleader directed a formation change to allow all aircraft anopportunity to perform updates of their bombing computers inpreparation for range entry. Button was directed to assume a pre-briefed position about 9,000 feet behind the lead aircraft. Asthe other aircraft maneuvered to their positions, Button'sdisappeared from sight.

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