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The Day a Congressman Vanished: Alaska's Unfound Cessna Mystery

The Day a Congressman Vanished: Alaska's Unfound Cessna Mystery

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The Day a Congressman Vanished: Alaska's Unfound Cessna Mystery

Fear of the unknown in the wild: a Cessna 310 carrying a sitting congressman and the House Majority Leader disappeared without a trace over Alaska’s most unforgiving terrain - and not a single piece of wreckage or one of the four men was ever found. How could a plane vanish after a 39-day multi-service search that produced nothing, and what role did a missing emergency locator transmitter play?

In this episode, we tell the story of that flight, the people aboard, the law about emergency beacons that had just taken effect five weeks earlier, and the massive search that found only absence - could one missing device be the reason nothing was recovered?

Date: October 16, 1972
Person: Nick Begich
Person: Hale Boggs
Person: Don Jonz
Event: 39-day multi-agency search

- Flight carried four men: Nick Begich, Hale Boggs, Russell Brown, and pilot Don Jonz.
- Alaska law requiring emergency locator transmitters took effect on September 6, 1972 - five weeks before the flight.
- Don Jonz’s portable transmitter was later found in a different aircraft in Fairbanks, approximately 300 miles away.
- Search lasted thirty-nine days and included the Coast Guard, Navy, Army, Air Force, Civil Air Patrol, and civilian volunteers.
- No wreckage, no personal belongings, and none of the four men were ever recovered.

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