Part 98, page 133

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THE POSSIBILITY OF PARACHUTING FROM THE PLANE. HE SAID THAT HE VAGUELY RECALLED HAVING DISCUSSED [REDACTED] THE MINIMUM SPEED OF THE COMMERCIAL JET AIRCRAFT. AS AN AIRCRAFT CONTROLLER AT ROCKFORD, HE HANDLES MOSTLY LIGHT AIRCRAFT AND OCCASIONALLY HAS LARGE JETS ON TRAINING MISSIONS OR EMERGENCY SITUATIONS LANDING AT ROCKFORD. HE SAID HE HAS OFTEN BEEN APPREHENSIVE ABOUT THE JET AIRCRAFT OVERTAKING A SMALLER PLANE WHEN BOTH ARE IN A LANDING PATTERN AND WOULD HAVE BEEN INTERESTED FROM THIS STANDPOINT ONLY. HE SAID THAT HE RECALLED DISCUSSING [REDACTED] HIS BEING A SKYDIVER AND THAT HE HAD MENTIONED THAT HE HAD AT ONE TIME PARA- CHUTED FROM A MILITARY JET. HE SAID [REDACTED] ENTHUSIAST AND HE HAD DISCUSSED [REDACTED]

SAMDAL ADVISED THAT HE COMPLETED JUMP SCHOOL IN THE AIR FORCE, BUT THAT HE HAS NOT JUMPED SINCE JULY OR AUGUST, SIXTY NINE, AND THAT HE COULD FURNISH NO INFORMATION OF POSSIBLE VALUE TO THIS INVESTIGATION.

SAMDAL DESCRIBED AS A WHITE MALE AMERICAN, DATE OF BIRTH JUNE TWO SIX, THIRTY NINE, AT JAMESTOWN, NORTH DAKOTA, HEIGHT FIVE FEET ELEVEN AND THREE FOURTHS INCHES, WEIGHT ONE EIGHT-FIVE POUNDS.

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