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...Board say the pilot in the plane crash that killed Sen. Paul Wellstone and seven others kept two different logbooks. Richard Conry's wife turned the logbooks over to investigators after the Oct. 25 crash that also killed Wellstone's wife, Sheila...
...Wellstone, his wife, daughter and three aides had a felony record for mail fraud, according to a published report. Richard Conry, 55, was convicted in a home construction and financing scheme that resulted in subcontractors not being paid for...
...experience by telling his managers he had hundreds of hours of experience with a major commuter airline, a report said. Richard Conry told Alan Hoffert, chief pilot at Executive Aviation, that he had 400 to 500 hours of prime experience at the commuter...
...crash, the Star Tribune reported Sunday. The newspaper said the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating Richard Conry's schedule in the days before the crash -- and how it may have affected the 55-year-old's fitness to fly...
...published Sunday. The direction of the probe represents a shift from an initial focus on the background of chief pilot Richard Conry, whose flying experience has been questioned and who moonlighted at a second job, had a felony fraud conviction and...
...to the NTSB report released Friday, some pilots interviewed by investigators questioned the skill levels of pilot Richard Conry and co-pilot Michael Guess and investigators found problems in Conry's past that included an undisclosed felony...
...crash remains unknown and the NTSB inquiry is expected to continue for months before its findings are made public. Richard Conry, a convicted felon who exaggerated his flying experience when he was hired at Aviation Charter in April 2001, was...
...Wellstone Markuson, 33; and campaign aides Will McLaughlin, 23, Tom Lapic, 59, and Mary McEvoy, 49. Pilots Richard Conry, 55, and Michael Guess, 30, also died in Friday's plane crash near Eveleth. The list of speakers was still being...
...aerospace engineers said the plane had slowed to 76 knots, or 87 miles per hour. At a speed of 76 knots, Capt. Richard Conry and co-pilot Michael Guess would have been well below safe-speed parameters set by the airplane's manufacturer...