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On February 28, 1968, a B-52 bomber carrying eight members of the U.S. Air Force crashes while on a training flight near Matagorda Island, Texas. There is no distress call, and no one ejects from the eight-engine, jet-powered bomber before it disappears beneath the waves of the Gulf of Mexico.
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I looked under the S's, and here in the white pages, exactly the way it was etched on the monument was this guy's rank and name, even abbreviated MHA period for major, in bold, and a phone number.
“And I don't know what drove me to do this, but as soon as I got back to the office, opened my desk drawer, pulled up the Fort Worth phone book, opened up the white pages.”
“Emotionally, it tore me up because for, you know, the years I was flying the airplane, and in the back of my mind, I always thought, well, if I disappear on a training mission, somebody's going to come looking for me. And if they never find me, they're going to take care of my family, you know, and that's not what happened in 1968.”
“We're going to go find the aircraft. I'm fairly confident. We know where it's at. It's in a big area. You know, about 30 square miles. But it's still important for us to determine the root cause of that 1968 accident because that aircraft is still flying.”
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