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To: Dwight Taylor who wrote (5749)	1/13/1998 10:16:00 AM
From: Jim Ilchyshn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116767

<Off Topic> To Ben, Sorry to continue the story here but the just of it is that the tower beam which has been set at 119 degrees instead of 109 degrees, the plane was flying at cloud elevation and by the time this is realized (it is off course) it is too late. - more from WSU... Maintenance Chief niko Jerkuic, 46, nervously fiddles with the dials on his VOR (VHF Omnidirectional Radio) beacon. The VOR is the only instrument that can guide the IFOR-21 safely to the runway. Jerkuic re-checks his terrain map again and again. In a couple of hours, he will be a rich man, the two American operatives tell him, if he can quietly send IFOR-21 into Sveti Ivan one of the highest mountains in the area at 2400 feet. on the other hand, if he miscalculates,...well, the Amercans do not look like men who would forgive someone who botches an assignment as serious as this one. All Jerkuic know is that there is someone on board the plane who is very dangerous to the American President, and it is his job to make sure the plane never lands. He glances out at some broken clouds around 400 feet above. They will have no effect. He will have to depend on the main cloud cover at 2000 feet. Sveti Ivan rises almost 400 feet into this overcast. Jerkuic calculates he will have to alter the signal by a full ten degrees, to send the plane that far off course into the mountains. Later... Niko Jerkuic goes home to collect his reward, but the reward is not waiting for him. It comes three days later: a bullet through the chest, administered just shortly before he is scheduled to be grilled by the U.S. Air Force accident investigation team. The hit squad wraps his hand around the gun and departs. The Americans do not want a live witness who could spill the beans later. Like many of the Whitewater dead, Jerkuic is immediately labeled a suicide, even though there's no evidence - and a chest wound is a rare case - especially with a large caliber pistol (unusual in Europe). The quick official reason given for bachelor Jerkuic's death is despondence over romantic troubles with his girlfriend. I have been unable to find any verification for this. Instead, I have found that neighbors and friends all agree Jerkuic was NOT depressed. He had just survived the years of the Bosnian War. He was excited that life was finally getting better.