Discovery Chanel: Andrew Carter Thornton.

[AndyMan 7]

I just caught the tail end of "Dangerous Company" highlighting the death of Andrew Carter Thornton.

In 1985 Drew Carter Thornton was found dead in a driveway beside his deployed reserve parachute. He was carrying a bag full of automatic weapons and cash, and had $15 million in cocaine strapped to his torso. They found a second unpacked used rig nearby, showing there was an unknown accomplice who jumped with him.

The plane he had jumped from was found crashed into the smokey mountains in Tennessee. The victim was from Kentucky.

Fascinating story. The only thing I could find was a brief link on a website for CourtTV http://www.kpitv.com/courttv.html - you need to scroll down. Anyone remember this ?

What's funny is the recreations they're doing are using airplanes with Fayards color scheme...

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You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

[AndyMan 7]

Fascinating story: Here's a book about the incident.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0595196667/qid=1103392774/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/102-3985506-2898528?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

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You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

[Hazarrd 1]

i caught the beginning of it but had to run to the airport to catch a flight. before that, they played a nice series on DB cooper, excellent work on it. i think im going to pick up the book u linked to as well as one on db cooper. both of these stories are very intriguing.

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[bclark 0]

You need to read "The Bluegrass Conspiracy". I cannot remember the authors name. This was all a true story. Drew Thornton was an ex Lexington Kentucky police officer, who along with other ex law enforcement officials ran a huge cocaine and arms smuggling trade between the U.S. and S. America. He was a pilot, a skydiver, and a BASE jumper. There is speculation that he operated with impunity from the U.S. government in exchange for intelligence info. about S. American governments. He would fly a load of guns to S. America, then fly back with a load of cocaine. I don't know if it is true, but there is a suspected link between Drew Thornton and the crash of "Cowboy's Caravan". They think the Cartels got pissed when Drew went in and contaminated the fuel in Cowboys Caravan because he was an associate of Drew Thornton.