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he called me up on the telephone from Canada, I knew right away who it was because he had a, that much of, I thought a distinctive voice, but the other ones I've talked to said they didn't never catch it, but I, I do and uh, so like I say he said let's get this show on the road, we got in my car, went out to the Albany airport and got in the plane, he went in and filed a thing on the flight plan, I guess you call it, and we flew from there to Klammath Falls and it seems that we stopped in Klammath and ate or got a sandwich or something there, and I think he gassed up, I'm not sure, then we went from Klammath to Reno and it was starting to get dark as we was approaching Reno, that's why I thought we stopped, because we must have killed some more time cause knew that it would probably get dark around eight o'clock or something at night and he was, you know, flying the plane and uh, like I say it was starting to get dark and he handed me the map and he said uh, something about we should pass a lake and then we should see the lights of Reno, and I looked down at the map and I said well there's a lake here but it's dried up well no, I said yeah the lakes here, and when I looked out I could see what looked to be like a lake, but it was all dried up and he thought well, then I don't know I said well it's what it looks like and, and he didn't evidently have time to you know, take his eyes off the plane of something to look at the map real good, but then all, cause that's when I thought oh my God it's getting dark and you know, there's no lake, there's no Reno, we kept a going, we kept a going, and I'm scared of heights anyway, I'm scared to death, so I remember that and then all of a sudden he had this beeper or something that went beep, beep told him to turn and I said well the map says this and he said well my beeper, I got to go by it, I said okay, do whatever you got to do, so we made the turn I remember and went for another five, ten minutes, nothing and then all of a sudden we seen the water, you know, real light, we could tell it was a lake, a big lake there of some kind and then we went by it and then we see the lights of Reno and that's when he got on the, on the C-B or whatever they carry in there and called in and they brought us in on radar, so we flew on in to there and it was say nine o'clock at night, somewheres in there, dark, we took the cab from the airport to Reno, we got us a room, we went up and ate, he won fifty dollars there on the dime jackpot standing in line, I remember that, and we gambled that night, probably I would say till two, three o'clock in the morning, maybe later, got up the next morning, went to the airport, got a cab went to the airport, and uh, it could have been later, cause the women were real sleepy so we could have gambled, I don't know how long we gambled but we went back to the airport, got in the airplane, he did all his thing about the flight plan and all this, we got out on the runway and was taxying down the runway, if, at whatever miles an hour, you know just starting to taxi, he said I feel a vibration, he said do you feel a vibration I said no, let's just go, let's get

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