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To: sea_urchin who wrote (17301)	2/23/2003 2:16:40 PM
From: Alan Whirlwind	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81226

nytimes.com Steven Thornton, the F.A.A. employee with whom Mr. Conry had spoken about the cloud cover, told investigators that he had seemed adamant about not making the flight. After the crash, Mr. Thornton told the investigators, he became concerned that someone might have pressed Mr. Conry to go ahead. Investigators also found that some details in the pilot's logbooks appeared to have been falsified... ...In the weeks before the crash, he committed such errors as misidentifying his aircraft type to air traffic controllers, and mistaking a switch that turned on the autopilot for a switch that activated a system to keep the plane pointed straight. He made the latter error while the plane was climbing through 300 feet. As a result, the nose pointed back down. Investigators learned of the incident from the co-pilot, who said he had had to explain the error to Mr. Conry.