I have been asked to post this in the chance someone has possible information. Please read and forward any thoughts..Thank you...Geo
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Lew Toulmin, Ph.D., Research Director, MAST
301-942-6062 (h/o); 301-775-6115 (cell); [email protected]
CALL FOR PILOT AND PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
IN MISSING AIRCRAFT CASE
A private group searching for a light aircraft missing in Oregon for the last three years has called for pilots and the public to assist with information.
The Missing Aircraft Search Team (MAST) is asking pilots of yellow or light colored Cub-style aircraft flying in Oregon on July 7, 2007 to check their logbooks and then contact MAST and provide information on their flight routes. According to MAST spokesman Lew Toulmin, This case involves Court Mumford, who took off early the morning on Saturday 7 July from Aurora State Airport (KUAO), 20 miles south of Portland, in his yellow CubCrafters Sport Cub. Court was never seen again. We are re-analyzing all the sightings and radar tracks from the original search, and were asking pilots who were flying similar planes that day to help us rule out those clues. This is vital to our search effort. Toulmin asks Oregon and Washington state pilots who have information to contact MAST member Colleen Keller, at [email protected].
Mumford was a 65-year-old resident of Portland and a retired airline pilot with over 27,000 flight hours. He had just bought his new Sport Cub and only had 10 hours in his new taildragger, high-wing aircraft, tail number N222TB. He may have gone out to practice touch and go landings, or he may have wanted to take a long flight. The aerial search conducted in 2007 did not turn up any clues.
MAST is also asking members of the public who saw a yellow, high-wing aircraft on Saturday, July 7, 2007, to contact Detective Sean Ferns of the Klamath County Sheriffs Office at 541-883-5130 or via e-mail at [email protected].
MAST was formed from a group of volunteers from around the country that met while working together on the Steve Fossett disappearance. The group includes pilots, mountaineers, search and rescue experts, probability theorists, communications experts, airplane archaeologists, and researchers. According to Toulmin, We have devoted over 2000 hours analyzing clues and conducting interviews in the N222TB case. We know this mystery can be solved; we used a similar approach to find N2700Q, a Cessna 182 that disappeared near Sedona Arizona in 2006.
This past July 7th marked the three-year anniversary of Court Mumfords disappearance. We would really like to solve this case before another year goes by, Toulmin added.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Lew Toulmin, Ph.D., Research Director, MAST
301-942-6062 (h/o); 301-775-6115 (cell); [email protected]
CALL FOR PILOT AND PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
IN MISSING AIRCRAFT CASE
A private group searching for a light aircraft missing in Oregon for the last three years has called for pilots and the public to assist with information.
The Missing Aircraft Search Team (MAST) is asking pilots of yellow or light colored Cub-style aircraft flying in Oregon on July 7, 2007 to check their logbooks and then contact MAST and provide information on their flight routes. According to MAST spokesman Lew Toulmin, This case involves Court Mumford, who took off early the morning on Saturday 7 July from Aurora State Airport (KUAO), 20 miles south of Portland, in his yellow CubCrafters Sport Cub. Court was never seen again. We are re-analyzing all the sightings and radar tracks from the original search, and were asking pilots who were flying similar planes that day to help us rule out those clues. This is vital to our search effort. Toulmin asks Oregon and Washington state pilots who have information to contact MAST member Colleen Keller, at [email protected].
Mumford was a 65-year-old resident of Portland and a retired airline pilot with over 27,000 flight hours. He had just bought his new Sport Cub and only had 10 hours in his new taildragger, high-wing aircraft, tail number N222TB. He may have gone out to practice touch and go landings, or he may have wanted to take a long flight. The aerial search conducted in 2007 did not turn up any clues.
MAST is also asking members of the public who saw a yellow, high-wing aircraft on Saturday, July 7, 2007, to contact Detective Sean Ferns of the Klamath County Sheriffs Office at 541-883-5130 or via e-mail at [email protected].
MAST was formed from a group of volunteers from around the country that met while working together on the Steve Fossett disappearance. The group includes pilots, mountaineers, search and rescue experts, probability theorists, communications experts, airplane archaeologists, and researchers. According to Toulmin, We have devoted over 2000 hours analyzing clues and conducting interviews in the N222TB case. We know this mystery can be solved; we used a similar approach to find N2700Q, a Cessna 182 that disappeared near Sedona Arizona in 2006.
This past July 7th marked the three-year anniversary of Court Mumfords disappearance. We would really like to solve this case before another year goes by, Toulmin added.
