Message posted by T Paglen on February 28, 2011 at 8:11:59 PST:

I actually looked into this a few years ago. Doing fieldwork in Nicaragua, I was able to get my hands on all the documents recovered from the downed plane, including the flight records. I knew about Helms' claim about the Groom connection (which he didn't footnote, as you point out), so I specifically looked for that in the docs. I didn't see any connection at all (i.e. no landings at Groom-related airfields DRA, TNX, TKM, etc...) - actually didn't see anything in the southwest at all. Most of the routes were between Florida and Honduras, with occasional landing in Costa Rica, if I remember correctly. There are a lot of interesting things in those documents, but Groom isn't one of them.

In Reply to: C-123K shot down in 1986 posted by Gimbal on February 25, 2011 at 3:14:06 PST:

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