43-year search for a lost helicopter in Vietnam ends

Normally, all missions were flown by at least two helicopters, but this one was so brief and so routine and along a route so well-known and marked by the center white line of a familiar highway that Freeman and his boss, Maj. Bruce "Ol’ Snake" Crandall, already at the Landing Zone with the rest of A Company’s 20 helicopters, agreed to waive that requirement and let 808 fly alone. With that, 808 flew off the face of the Earth. It disappeared without a word on the radio of distress or… (www.star-telegram.com) さらに...