Do you think Paul Wellstone was murdered?

[Nye Bevan]

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Other pilots at the charter company told NTSB that pilot Richard Conry and first officer (co-pilot) Michael Guess both displayed below average flying skills. Conry had a well-known tendency to allow co-pilots to take over all functions of the aircraft as if they were the sole pilot during flights. After the crash, three copilots told of occasions in which they had to take control of the aircraft away from Conry.[27] After one of those incidents, only three days before the crash, the co-pilot (not Guess) had urged Conry to retire.[30] In a post-accident interview Timothy Cooney, Conry's longtime friend and fellow aviator, said that he last spoken to Conry in June 2001 and had expressed concerns about difficulties he had flying King Airs as late as April of that year, eighteen months prior to the accident.[31] Significant discrepancies were also found in the captain's flight logs in the course of the post-accident investigation indicating he had probably greatly exaggerated his flying experience, most of which had been accrued before a 9 - 10 year hiatus from flying due to a fraud conviction and poor eyesight.[27] He had Lasik surgery but it only improved his vision to 20/50, 20/30[32] and he was required by FAA regulations to wear corrective lenses.[33] However, the pilot's wife and Timothy Cooney said he did not wear lenses after the surgery.[34] The coroner who examined his badly burned body was unable to determine if he was wearing contacts at the time of the crash.[35]

Guess was cited by co-workers as having to be consistently reminded to keep his hand on the throttle and maintain airspeed during approaches.[27] He had two previous piloting jobs: one with Skydive Hutchinson as a pilot (1988–1989), and another with Northwest Airlines as a trainee instructor (1999). However, he was dismissed from both jobs for lack of ability.[36] Conry's widow told the NTSB that her husband told her “the other pilots thought Guess was not a good pilot.”

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	Yes. It is more likely than not that Paul Wellstone was murdered.
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	No. Paul Wellstone's death was most likely accidental.
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