Bradford Runyon Interview, 25 February 2005
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| BR | OK, I know that they mention that Partin was an hour off his timing on the, something that he had said— | |
| TT | Yeah but that was just a just a simple mistake— Central Daylight Time— | |
| BR | OK. | |
| TT | The transcript ends at 9:28 with a general statement that you are on a final for landing. We know you landed at 9:40, that's mentioned many—so there are 12 minutes that seem to have disappeared. Now it could be that that last timing, I don't, I'm not sure this will ever make total sense. We know what time you took the radar scope photos 'cause there's a clock face that's filmed— | |
| BR | Right. | |
| TT | ...so that was at 4:06, so at 4:06 you're halfway up, somewhere between the fix and—when they say "WT" are they referring to way point? | |
| BR | That was just the name of the fix, the TACAN fix that we were supposed to start our penetration from. | |
| TT | That one up there was, the one that they referred to as "WT?" | |
| BR | Yes, I don't know what the name of it— | |
| TT | But it wasn't way, it wasn't a short term for waypoint? | |
| BR | No, I don't think so | |
| TT | OK, just curious. But you were somewhere between halfway and all the way up there— | |
| BR | Right. | |
| TT | —so really you were 10-12 minutes away from the base—take you about 10 minutes to go from there in? | |
| BR | Well we're still going out too. I can't remember how long it takes to make a penetration. It seems to me like, well I don't want to guess. | |
| TT | Yeah, anyway the point is that in the documents, your radio goes out for less than four minutes— | |
| BR | Yeah | |
| TT | —not more than four minutes, which means your airspeed would've been pretty high for it to follow you for 20 miles, everybody has it at 20 miles at least, you're a little higher at 25—I mean, what other sort of discrepancies did you see in the documents? | |
| BR | Well I just saw some of the missed approach instructions were wrong for that particular runway. Maybe I'm wrong on that; it just seems to me like some of the turns were left out. | |
| TT | Yeah, especially on the last one—the whole downwind leg's gone | |
| BR | Yeah, and there's nothing in there about the instruction from the General Officer—but like I said it could have come over on the HF radio. |
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