Patrick D. McCaslin Interview, 25 February 2001
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| PM: | Yeah, he was in the seat. | |
| INT: | Yeah. Well, his perspective was he was in the other seat—or, he was in the left hand seat. | |
| PM: | He was in the AC seat. As I remember it. | |
| INT: | Yeah. | |
| PM: | I couldn't see that. I was downstairs. | |
| INT: | Well, we can talk about this later. There's some confusion about how they over flew it. How it was over flown. Okay, so let's just kind of walk through it then. | |
| PM: | Okay. | |
| INT: | It was pretty early in the morning— | |
| PM: | Yeah, my memory is that it was 2-3:00 in the morning. We had...boy, I probably shouldn't even conjecture. I don't know. We had done some things prior to that. I want to say we'd been over to Grand Forks and shot some approaches there. I don't think we had done a lot of navigation-type things, like low-level routes or high-level bombing, or any of that stuff. I think we had...it was mostly a pilot's type mission. But at some point around...my memory is about 3:00 in the morning...we showed up at Minot, and we flew...we were coming from—and the reason I think we were coming from Grand Forks, my memory is that we were coming from the east to the west and flew an approach of some kind into the runway, did a low approach, as I remember it. Could' a been a touch and go, but I'm pretty sure it was a low approach. | |
| INT: | You put your wheels down? | |
| PM: | He actually touched down, and then pour the coal to it and take off again. In a low approach, you, at some point prior to touching the runway, you add power and take off again. He had requested—one of the pilots had requested a VORTAC—tack and approach, which was VOR approach. I think it's a VORTAC northwest of Minot. | |
| INT: | Is that combining V-O-R— | |
| PM: | V-O-R and TACAN. | |
| INT: | Can you explain those terms—V-O-R, TACAN. |
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