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(On June 5, 1968 John Pitre telephoned Jane from Franklin, LA, seeking answers to three questions: the reasons for John’s uneasiness concerning his wife Peg last week; the reasons for the loss of leg feeling John experiences in hot weather; and data on a pilot, Albert Blevins, who vanished on a flight in a small plane near the Gulf Coast about four years ago, presumably near Franklin.
(Slower pace.) Fuel difficulties; not a lack of fuel, but the fuel was not getting where it should get. A stalling (long pause), in the air. (Long pause.) The pilot bailed out. (Long pause.) The chute landed on top of him, never fully opened. (Pause.) A connection with an April day. Night was when the accident occurred.
There is a current underground, underwater, that captured the wreckage. (Long pause.) The body of the pilot was not so captured however. The gulf here is more narrow, or there is an island here. The plane did not fall in the middle of a huge expanse—perhaps between the mainland and another shore. Is that clear?
(Pause.) The pilot intended to try and bail out over the land. Very shortly here the gulf is wide again. A town perhaps beginning with a B or P, that sound. Take your break.
(Student Bill Herriman is a professional pilot who flies a considerable distance to Elmira for class; his counterpart in class, Carl Jones, lives in Elmira each summer while giving instructions in sailplane flying, the third member of the counterpart trio, Bill Granger, is not a member of class, lives in Elmira, has always had a deep interest in aircraft, and is now learning to pilot sailplanes. [...]
[...] It’s interesting to note that Seth says I was a pilot, and hence an officer, in that probability. [...] While on duty in some of the remote islands of the Pacific, however, I managed to get in some flying time, though not as a pilot.
[...] You died again in the war, where you were a pilot — but those are not your official deaths, so you do not recognize them.3
[...] These concerned John’s uneasy feeling about his wife Peg, last week; the strange loss of feeling in his legs in hot weather; and an effort to learn something from Seth about a pilot who disappeared some four years ago in a light plane near John’s hometown, Franklin, LA, which is close to the Gulf of Mexico.