Patrick D. McCaslin Interview, 25 February 2001
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| INT: | Okay. Yeah. I mean Colonel Werlich says in a memo—I can show you a memo for the record—in November '68, he says he didn't take scope photos at first, until the pilot said, "Why don't you take some photos?" This was towards the end. | |
| PM: | Well clearly, I can show you on the photos you have that they're early in this incident. [Because of the poor quality McCaslin was misinterpreting the info in the NARA versions. The photos were actually taken near the end of the radar encounter.] | |
| INT: | Yeah. And did the pilot instruct you to take the photos? | |
| PM: | My memory is that he did not. My memory is that based on the request from the tower, from what I heard about it, that just seemed like the smart thing to do—put it in station keep. And I asked Chuck to put it in station keep. Now the photos, you know, that's a separate—you have to turn the camera on. | |
| INT: | Hit a button? Hit a switch? | |
| PM: | Yeah. Downstairs. The radar does that. | |
| INT: | Oh, the radar nav? So Chuck Ritchie has to do that? | |
| PM: | He did that. You'll see it when you see the scope photos. | |
| INT: | Well I'm just curious. I mean is that something you would normally do? Just automatically hit the camera button? | |
| PM: | No, you have to turn it on. I mean you have to want to turn it on. | |
| INT: | So were you guys ordered to film this thing? | |
| PM: | Not my impression. I mean at some point I think we—probably me, said, "Let's get this thing on film." | |
| INT: | Well, Runyon's recall is they got a call from a GO who was patched into the control tower. The GO said, "We want you to over fly that thing and film it." | |
| PM: | Oh. | |
| INT: | But see, to me that doesn't make sense. Why would you over fly something to film it on radar film? |
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