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Recovery team gives up effort of finding plane, for now
EAGLE, Colo. (AP) —After spend
ing the night on a snowy mountain
side, a military recovery team today
gave up its effort, at least for now, to
reach the wreckage of the A-10 Thun
derbolt last seen three weeks ago.
The specially trained four-mem
ber team had been taken by heli
copter up to the 11,500-foot level
Wednesday, but snowy weather had
made it impossible for them to
climb the last 1,000 feet to the
wreckage site. This morning, after
calling for help, team members
were walking to a location where a
helicopter could pick them up.
It was not immediately known
when recovery efforts would re
sume at the site, about 15 miles
southwest ofVail.
Earlier Wednesday, a special op
erations expert dangling from a ca
ble was able to retrieve pieces of the
Air Force plane that vanished dur
ing a training mission. There was no
sign of the pilot, Capt. Craig Button.
“I don’t know if Captain Button
was with the aircraft or was not with
the aircraft so I cannot talk about re
mains,’’ Air Force Maj. Gen. Nels
Running said Wednesday night.
“The search continues.”
Tech Sgt. Ishmael Antonio, who
has climbed Mount McKinley, was
the man who retrieved the debris,
which confirmed once and for all
that the A-10 had crashed there.
Hanging from a cable dropped by a
TH-53 helicopter, he fine-tuned the
operation with commands to move
the chopper a little bit to the right, a
little bit to the left.
Antonio tried to retrieve the biggest
piece of wreckage, the one seen in aer
ial photos. It turned out to be bigger
than he was, and the rescue specialist
had to settle for two smaller pieces.
Air Force maintenance records
identified the objects as part of the
missing plane.
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