Patrick D. McCaslin Interview, 25 February 2001

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INT:	When you say 'inbound', at what—
PM:	After we turned from the—or after we turned and started our descent.
INT:	Okay, you don't see anything.
PM:	All the stuff that I saw on that package was outbound. [The quality of the reproductions was so bad that the heading marker was not visible in the photos. McCaslin mistook the frame advance indication (at about 285 degrees) as the heading marker. The actual heading was 132 degrees].
INT:	Okay, from the beginning of the incident?
PM:	Could've been slightly prior.
INT:	Oh, okay.
PM:	But it was hard to tell because of the quality. I could tell from the heading that we were outbound. I saw one blip, maybe two that were what I think is the return, and it was in the right position and all that stuff—three miles out off the right wing.
INT:	Oh, let's talk a little bit about the radar type. I mean what types of systems were you running? ASQ-38?
PM:	ASQ-something—it's a type of radar.
INT:	Okay. That was being used at the time?
PM:	In B-52's, yeah. I'm not sure if it was 38 but it was ASQ. Sounds right.
INT:	How did the antennas operate on that system?
PM:	They're under the chin of the B-52. The radar's under the chin of the B-52 and it's capable of rotating 360 degrees—
INT:	Oh, underneath?
PM:	Yeah. And then it's capable of being—sector scan, and it's capable of being elevated and tilted like this. There was a dead spot at the rear of the aircraft by the fuselage and tail, yeah.