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been on the Tuesday then it'd been different, it could have been he called on a Tuesday, that's why nobody was there, it's more likely then would have been gone then, but not Wednesday, so that's just something there, I don't know, see I can't really get the time of day he called but I know I was sitting in the chair and nobody's home.

What was his name?

Am I supposed to tell you?

It would help.

[REDACTED] Okay, now we, I called the girlfriend that knew him and she, what she'd say his?

She said either [REDACTED] might be his middle name.

Middle name, see I never knew his middle name

But she wasn't sure.

was [REDACTED], could be his middle name.

Go ahead.

And let's see, where was we at,

Well the reason you went in to explaining about the airplane and how well he handled it, just

Oh yeah, he knew what he was doing with airplanes.

Cause he seemed to know what he was doing

He knew everything, I mean

Do you know if the plane belonged to him or did he

No, he rented it, cause he said, I remember now I got to thinking again at the time this happened on that indicator thing, he said he was glad he didn't take this other plane because it didn't have an indicator, it just had a radio, I guess, but evidently he couldn't get radio contact with uh, Reno where he was flying right there, or something, I don't know if he even tried, but I remember him mentioning if he wouldn't have had that indicator he was glad he got the plane with the indicator in it, I remember that, because that told us to turn, so that's

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