Truth or Consequences :: Texas Monthly

http://www.texasmonthly.com/2012-05-01/feature-4.php

Bush, scared to land.
These shifting explanations only intensified the scrutiny and led to
questions about what else could have caused Bush's loss of flight
status. One possible answer was offered much later, in 2004, by a
woman named Janet Linke. After Bush left for Alabama, her husband, Jan
Peter Linke, was transferred to Houston to replace him on the F-102,
which apparently still needed pilots, despite the phaseout. While the
Linkes were there, Bush's former commanding officer, Lieutenant
Colonel Jerry Killian, allegedly told them that Bush had stopped
flying because he became afraid to land the plane. "He was mucking up
bad, Killian told us," Janet said to a Florida newspaper. (Jan Peter
died in a car accident in 1973.)
But by the time Linke went public with her allegation, the press had
already abandoned the Bush National Guard story for the Dan Rather
controversy. Also ignored was some possible corroborating evidence: an
Associated Press investigation uncovered Bush's original flight logs,
which showed that after flying for hundreds of hours on the F-102,
Bush suddenly began flying a two-seat T-33 training jet and spent more
time in a flight simulator in the months preceding his departure for
Alabama. The logs also showed instances of his having to make multiple
passes at the landing strip.
---SPSmith