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Plane flew upright, rolled, say witnesses to crash
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By Andrew Moore
A preliminary report released by the National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday outlines the moments leading up to the plane crash that killed Sheldon Arnett at the Redmond Airport on May 14. Arnett, 87, started flying as a flight instructor with the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, and had flown regularly over the last six decades. With clear skies and mild weather, Arnett took off from the Redmond Airport in his Piper PA-24 Comanche with plans to fly to Burns. He was the only person on board when the plane crashed east of the airport shortly after takeoff about 7:20 a.m. The NTSB report includes accounts from two witnesses who saw Arnett’s plane climbing rapidly before it turned nose down and crashed. The first witness was on Runway 4, which crosses Runway 10, where Arnett was preparing to take off. The witness, who was conducting a runway inspection, saw Arnett’s plane as it accelerated down the runway. The witness next saw Arnett’s plane airborne at the departure end of Runway 10, flying nearly straight up. When the plane was 100 to 200 feet off the ground, it rolled 360 degrees and stalled, the witness said, and headed toward the ground nose-down. The plane did a second 360-degree roll and descended behind a treeline, which blocked the witness’s view of the crash. A second witness, who was in the air traffic control tower, provided investigators with a similar account. According to the second witness, Arnett’s plane was “on a normal climb” about half a mile beyond the end of the runway when it began climbing steeply. See Crash / A7
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BendBroadband is alerting its cable television subscribers that 53 of the cable channels it offers could be on the fritz for the next two weeks starting today due to a rogue satellite. The Bend-based cable provider is among hundreds of cable television companies throughout the country whose programming may be compromised by the outof-control Galaxy 15 satellite, which is set to enter the orbit of a key cable satellite today. Galaxy 15, which is owned by Intelsat and was used for aircraft navigation, is not expected to collide with the AMC 11 cable satellite but instead to interfere with AMC 11’s signal transmission. Experts believe Galaxy 15 was knocked out by a solar storm and is likely to disintegrate in the Earth’s atmosphere next month. See Cable / A7
What’s at risk? Cable channels potentially affected: • Comedy • CBS College Central Sports • MTV • Lifetime • Nickelodeon • Discovery Kids • HGTV • CMT • C-SPAN • Smithsonian HD A complete list is posted online at www.bendbroadband.com/residential/ ht_detail.asp?id=710918&KeepThis=t rue&TB_iframe=true&height=500&w idth=750
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WASHINGTON — After a dead-end tip that a mystery man sitting in a Portland jail went to high school in the nation’s capital, federal investigators are asking for the public’s help to figure out the identity of “John Doe, aka Jason Evers.” The former Bend-based regional manager of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, believed to have assumed the identity of a 3-year-old killed in Cincinnati 28 years ago, faces one federal charge of falsifying a passport application and an Ohio state charge of identity fraud. And
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“Evers” — who submitted his resignation from the OLCC Thursday — has refused to tell a Portland-based federal magistrate who he really is. On Friday, federal investigators with the U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Service issued an official request for the public’s help in the form of a bulletin showing photos of “Evers” and the relatively small amount of information they’ve found out about him. Authorities do know the man allegedly assumed the identity of Jason Robert Evers while living in Colorado in 1996 and then got his GED three years later.
After being interviewed for an earlier story, Chalmer Naugle, the administrator of Colorado’s GED program, followed up with The Bulletin last week, saying he’d done further research. He located a form “Evers” filled out before he took the GED test in Littleton, Colo. On that form, the man wrote he’d last attended school at “W. Wilson High School” in Washington, D.C. — an apparent reference to Woodrow Wilson High School. The alleged impostor also indicated he was in the 10th grade in 1995 and had no further formal education. See Evers / A7
‘Lost’ fans prepare to dodge e-spoilers By Jenna Wortham New York Times News Service
Erin Farley has her plans for Sunday all laid out. Two hours before the last episode of “Lost” is broadcast three time zones away, she will shut down her home Internet connection. TweetDeck? Off. Facebook? Off. Her cell phone? Stashed out of reach. “I’ll turn off the whole Internet just to avoid hav-
ing anything spoiled,” said Farley, a 31-year-old freelance writer in Portland. “I don’t want to ruin the surprise.” The Internet in general, and social media like Twitter in particular, can be a minefield for those who are trying to keep themselves in the dark about an event or show so they can enjoy it later. See Spoilers / A6
LOS ANGELES — The “Kevin Costner solution” to the worsening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may actually work, and none too soon for the Inside president of • Obama taps Plaquem i ne s 2 to lead oil Parish. spill inquiry Costner has invested • Attempt at 15 years and mud solution about $24 milis delayed, lion in a novel Page A7 way of sifting oil spills that he began working on while making his own maritime film, “Waterworld,” released in 1995. See Oil / A7
Episodes of “Lost” this season have averaged 27,000 posts on Twitter, making it tricky for people who can’t watch live and want to remain in the dark. The Associated Press file photo