So sad. Senator Martha McSally was personally involved in this. She was friends with him as they both were T-37 instructors back in Texas. She came out to Tucson first and then he did. In her book, Dare To Fly, McSally opens up her heart about this situation. She missed a phone call from Button and was not able to get back to him. Was he reaching out for help? We'll never know, but McSally to her credit, poured her energy into the search and rescue operation. It was almost three weeks after he disappeared that the helicopter McSally was in found the wreckage on a snowy mountainside. The chopper pilot put one skid in the snow and McSally climbed out on the other skid to grab a piece of the wreck for ID. That's when she saw Capt. Button's check list there in the snow and immediately knew he was gone.
@@SparkyMcBiff - not a leftist, but i hope you and other trumpists have some parties this winter with other anti-maskers, bring your grandparents. Hopefully you all start dropping like flies; we'll all be better off.
I live in Arizona and remember this. No one knows what was going on his mind, but we can be grateful he didn't take anyone else with him like the Germanwings pilot.
Yes, excellent point. By the way, ignore the totally bizarre comment immediately below yours, by frogsgottalent. So, he thinks he's a frog that's got talent... that tells everyone here everything they need to know about how many screws are loose in this person's head.
I recall hearing about this at the time. There was a real fear that Captain Button might have turned over the A-10 to a domestic terror group (the Oklahoma City bombing had occurred only two years earlier), but that fear was groundless, and thankfully so. However, we are left with a human tragedy, of motives that will never be known. May Craig Button have found peace in the end.
Frank J. Minjares, Ken Folger, Craig D. Button, Patel- all in Gen Hap Arnold Air Society and Air Force ROTC in the Bronx, NY. All involved in 9/11. Craig backed out. Crashed the A-10 in Colorado to expose the role of his three rogue buddies in 9/11. Truth stranger than fiction. Davis Monthan AFB in Tucson. 18 of the WTC Bombers started in Tucson at the ICT. It was Muslim Brotherhood Mafia NWO terrorism. Craig hoped to expose it all.
tinwoods were you alive “pre-9/11”? Because until that day it was very possible for a handful of people to take over a commercial airliner with box cutters. And none of them were intercepted. Listen to the recordings that day. Our national security was a joke. The responses were slow, nobody sounded confident in their tasks at all, they were dumbfounded to say the least. There were 7 bases around the country, with fighter jets on alert. And on 9/11 the only fighters that were alert were 2x F-15 from Otis AFB, MA and 2x F-16 from Langley AFB, VA. Now it’s much different. The alert jets around the country were mainly for threats coming in from the coasts or over Canada. Russian Bears, for instance. Perimeter defense. Not a known friendly civilian airliner or even military, suddenly turning hostile once it is already inside the perimeter. And up until the mid-90's, there were many more jets on alert around the country. East coast, probably every couple hundred miles. Loring ME, Griffiss NY, Langley VA, Shaw, SC, on and on all around the coast and borders. The drawdown of the mid 90's did away with most of that tasking. The F-16s that were going to intercept United 93 weren’t even armed, because it would have taken over 30 mins to do. So both pilots took off unarmed while other jets on ground began being armed. Those two unarmed pilots had come to the conclusion that they were the closest fighters to the hijacked plane, but unfortunately unarmed, so they were going to “ram” United 93 Also known as, a suicide mission. The female pilot was going to come around and crash her aircraft into the cockpit.
@@willgriffin3490 the ordinance order was blank but because of army regulations that part of the paperwork is redacted and you can't see those fields anyway. Captain Button had a history of messing up, he was a borderline personality and he knew as soon as he reached cruising altitude he had messed up (didn't even bring his bombs with him) so he decided to fly around crazy until he crashed.
@@CoIoneIPanic Thanks for the reply. I'm curious as to why you mention Navy when he was Air Force. The four Mk-82 500 pound bombs were AF assets as well as the A-10. Not trying to argue, just asking questions here. As for the four MK-82s, even if Captain Buttons had forgotten to verify that his loadout was correct I would think the other 2 Warthogs would notice this. Plus the ammo load for his aircraft is pulled and serial numbers checked and cross checked hours, sometimes days, in advance. Then he went first to refuel and the other 2 a/c would have been behind him and I would hope they would have noticed Captain Buttons was missing 4 MK-82 500 pound bombs since it was a live fire training mission. But I could be wrong. Also, the bomb racks were still armed. That would suggest that the aircraft had been armed. Again, not trying to argue. Just asking questions. We may never know the real reason or where the 4 MK-82s went.
From the bomb racks the bombs were never released, the bombs were never found. Guess we'll just have to keep watching PAWN STARS to see if somebody rolls one in there wanting $500 for it, only to have Rick counter with $5.00.
That is troubling as it was a live fire excercise, they went somewhere. With the transponder being turned off, is it possible to land somewhere obscure/out of the way to offload them and reset the releases ? A theory that needs to be answered........
I’m not sure about these bombs specifically but many have a charge that releases them, it’s not like a lever that you can just close. I’m guessing that’s how they know they hadn’t been dropped from the air.
@@hotdog720 That's the way it was in the 1970's: still pretty much WWII technology. Electromagnetic impulses weren't enough to overcome the friction; so they had a pyrotechnic about the size of a shotgun shell, that actually released the bomb. They may have upgraded since then. But it is odd that there was no indication of release and yet the racks were found and not the bombs. The story probably lost something in the telling.
A lot of the time, people who have severe emotional distress never show it to their family or friends. It is a personal burden they have to fight until sometimes it just overcomes them. Very sad for this officer and his family/friends. RIP
Sadly once he went rogue it became very difficult to go back. The endless interviews and testing and, of course, the inevitable demotion. And the longer he was out the greater the consequences. The poor fellow had put himself into an impossible position. My heart goes out to him. He was obviously suffering. Another fantastic tale Allec.
That’s the part that really scares me, we don’t know what his original plans were. Apparently we had a pilot and an aircraft that went completely off on their own and it appears from the outside of the decision to not bomb a major American city may have been simply a cop out at the very end of his plan. There is way too much that is unknown about this scenario.
This story is many things, heartbreaking, fascinating and filled with mystery. The mystery of why he chose to do this and the mystery regarding what actually happened to the bombs. Truly this young man must have been very troubled. Only God knows what was happening in his personal life that may well have played a big part in this. I guess the one good thing is he took no one else's life that day only his own. Such a very sad story. Thank you Allec, a fine video.
@@GiordanDiodato if it took so long for the military with all their equipment to even find him, and four months to retrieve his remains, how could someone had gotten to the site and removed 4 live bombs?
@@Musique61414 We don't refer to our troops in uniform as cowards. You should delete your post immediately. It is reprehensible. A woman can be a difficult thing to get over. Esp if children and child custody issues are involved. The fact is that we have no idea at all what made Capt Buttons give up. It even could have been a medical diagnosis involving great future pain. We just don't know.
dobromeister yea, then you’re a hopeless coward. Jkjk. Despite what happened I still respect this man tremendously . Having spent 4+ years in the Air Force I lost 6 coworkers and friends in my squadron due to suicide. I guess it comes down to everyone having a breaking point & people do vastly different things at that point. I think I may have ptsd from watching my brothers end their beautiful lives prematurely. May they all Rest In Peace.
Thanks Allec, one of your all-time best videos for me. Not because of the graphics, music or historical significance. I became interested because of all the mystery behind this crash & the disappearance of the four 500 lb bombs. So many questions & no answers. Since this happened so long ago, I guess we'll never find out. Tarantino needs to make a film about this incident & put his own spin on the ending.
Two possible and plausible reasons spring to mind. A sudden catastrophic or near catastrophic health failure, or suicide. Feels more like suicide, the fact that he turned South near Aspen and then turned back North again suggests that area had some meaning to the pilot . Very sad for everyone involved as there is so many questions unanswered.
I remember this as a 14 year old kid. We were stationed at Langley about to move to Holloman at the time. It was back in the days when the news reported on relevant things.
I'd bet dollars to donuts they did scramble fighters. However, it's a needle in a haystack endeavor. On 9/11 a pair of F-15s were looking for one of the hijacked planes but couldn't find it in time. Aerial interception is more difficult than one might think unless you get a vector from a powerful ground station (turning off the transponder frustrates that considerably) or from an AWACS (not likely to have one of those just cruising around). Also, I suspect that given the remote nature of the areas he flew through civilian radar coverage is spotty at best.
@@sirbader1 , and I don't think their onboard radar has that long of a range, plus the clutter. From what I've heard bragged an F-14 could have done it (transponder or not) and confirmed with those amazing cameras, but those were gone by then (and IIRC those only operated from carriers.
Yet again, another very interesting video, Allec. Especially appreciated is you including a picture of Captain Button. We are then able to personalize these events. Well done!
@@747heavyboeing3 You never know what someone is going through. The military is one of those careers that have a high suicidal rate. Can't say it was a waste. He unfortunately just didn't have the right people to talk with to help him out. It's sad that he felt that was his only way out.
Allec, this was a fascinating story, but the sim was absolutely amazing. I felt like I was in the cockpit with Capt. Button. But then the mountains and terrain rushing by. Wow, just wow! This must have been so complicated to recreate- first class work! And
Craig was best buddies with my ex husband. There were 4 guys in AF ROTC in the Bronx, NY together. They were also all in the Gen. Hap Arnold Civil Air Society. Craig killed himself in hopes of exposing his ROTC buddies for their role in giving bin Laden the flight plans, load plans, trajectories, so that the 18 WTC Bombers who were in Tucson, AZ at the time, would be exposed. Craig was one of 4 Air Force Officers that went rogue and were part of 9/11. Bin Laden lived in Tucson with Azzam and Wael Hamza Julaiden during the 80's and early 90's. 18 of the 22 WTC Bombers were in Tucson until they went to Coral Gables, Florida. Craig backed out of 9/11. He killed himself to expose his 3 treasonous ROTC buddies for their upcoming role in 9/11.
Something went terribly wrong in his life and he just wanted to see the beauty of this land one more time before he ended it all. Thank God he wasn't a bad person and didn't take out some city blocks with the bombs he had loaded....
Not an evil person, just egotistical as fuck. It might be hard to see, if oneself too is swallowed by our egoistical comsumer culture. Persons just as this idiotic pilot, will be born under such conditions.
@@markmaki4460 An absolutely bad person. If you steal millions of dollars, you are a bad person. That is exactly what he did by deliberately crashing that aircraft.
Back in the 80s in the USAF I worked on nuclear missiles in Wyoming. Among many other requirements, we had to certified under something called “PRP”, or “Personnel Reliability Program”. If you were dealing with a problem, family issue, death of a loved one, divorce, or anything that could affect you or your job performance you’d be taken off PRP & out of the field until it could be dealt with. You could take yourself off PRP, as could friends or supervisors. It was in no way a disciplinary action. It was a way to look out for each other and make sure we were at the top of our game and focused on task while doing our jobs. I would assume pilots in charge of million dollar weapon platforms with live munitions would be under something similar. Too bad it failed here.
I recall this pilot as having a rather complex relationship with his mother, who was very religious and disapproved of his military career. One can easily suppose that he felt quite a conflict over this. Especially being the squeaky clean hard worker he was known to be, and probably sought approval just as much.
not really.. the Q400 thing was more of a "fk it why not". i don't think his intentions were to ever commit suicide from the start but his options were land and be arrested and be charged as a hijacker or have fun til the very last minute and that's what he did.
A family that moved to my street and the dad had been an airforce test pilot. The mom went out to work and he stayed home. He drank a lot. His daughter, my friend said he got drunk and ran thru the house trying to kill her and her brother. I asked my parents and they told me he was alcoholic. They thought it was from the stress of being a test pilot. This was in the 1950s. Rest in peace Captain Button.
I worked in aged care and looked after many returned WW2 veterans. The ones who were hardest hit were the Air Force vets..because they didn’t see their war until afterwards. These were the men who flew with the RAF and did the bombing runs over Germany. It was only later, after the war when they saw first hand the human toll of what they had done that they fell into a deep, deep depression. They saved Britain, ( not even their country, they were Australian fighters), but at what cost to their own mental health. They fared far worse in old age than the gentlemen had been Japanese prisoners of war. It was a really sad thing to see. I have a lot of respect for airmen, nobody really knows what they go through. Godspeed Captain Button
@@elfucheros sounds logical but it took 4 days to get the body... Imagine how difficult it would be to remove four 500lb bombs from that remote location
LOVE YOUR WORK... As we have previously discussed in the past... I still think your Commercial Airline crashes are HANDS DOWN THE BEST!!! Have a good weekend.👍
TX ARGUY No jackass, I think his content that he posts in general, learning about aviation events that have happened, and the aircraft featured is. The deaths and injuries are really sad. I like the videos where everyone survives the best anyways.
Apparently his father was ex-USAF colonel, while his mother was a devout Jehovah's Witness who raised him to think that joining the military is morally wrong and was always urging him to quit. Sounds like a perfect screw-up-your-kid recipe!
@@FyourCult ...be kind to your mom as best you can. I've found the great majority of JW's are deeply traumatized and hurt in their earlier years. They compensate for that very real trauma with a need for rigid structure, which the Watchtower offers. Be patient without letting her drive you nuts.
A kid who is raised by an overbearing retired colonel and a devout JW is going to have issues. One of those is that he probably wasn’t allowed to date until an adult. By which time he never had a chance to work out the complex emotions of such and when it went south he didn’t know how to handle it and as others have commented found a permanent solution to a temporary problem. I remember my first adjustment as a teenager to losing my first “love”. I didn’t take it well, but there are always distractions at that age.
Wow! The timing of this video couldn't have been any better (for me that is!) I watched a mini-documentary the other day about this specific case. I'll include the link for it, as well as another link that talks about how the A-10 came to be and the engineering involved. Both of them are a good watch. I'm probably a little biased because the A-10 is one of my all time favorite planes.😉 Thanks for sharing yet another wonderfully made video, keep up the great work!👍🏻👍🏻 The story behind the crash: ua-cam.com/video/_9ZFCIbMU04/v-deo.html The engineering of the A-10: ua-cam.com/video/wk6Qr6OO5Xo/v-deo.html
I definitely “Thumbs Up”ed the video! And understanding how much effort Allec puts into his productions, I would like to offer the following suggestion. It really would have been helpful for those of us who aren’t familiar with the SouthWest US to have shown a breadcrumb trail of the sightings. I have no idea how difficult that would have been, so take it for what it’s worth. :)
Not sure if this helps you, but Tucson is in the SE part of Arizona, not far from the Mexico border. So they would have taken off and headed either north or more likely west or northwest since Phoenix is pretty much straight north and I'm pretty sure there's a bombing range to the west/northwest in the SW Arizona desert between Tucson and the California border. When he breaks off he heads northeast, then heads back southwest towards Tucson. Or he could have headed dead south from the Four Corners area and then dead west towards Tucson. He then heads back north and is near Apache Junction, which is dead east of Phoenix, probably 50 miles. He keeps heading north, then at some point turns east towards New Mexico. He then turns north and enters Colorado, eventually turning northeast toward the southwestern part of Colorado. Seems to essentially fly in a circle there before heading back northeast and crashing near Vail, which is west of Denver. Anyway maybe that helps a bit.
I didn't realize how close this was to my old stomping grounds till they mentioned Apache Junction. That's just outside Williams AFB. Granted wee had been shut down for 4 years by then, but it still feels to close to home. We lost a few T-37's in the mountains while I was there. Base Commander lost his job over that one.
More to it than that -- there was some evidence in the press at the time that Button had discovered that he was gay and didn't want to live with it. Just too bad he had to take one of Uncle Sam's very expensive aircraft with him when he could have committed suicide by jumping off a cliff.
@@hshs5756 I've never seen any evidence of that. Often times the military lists a dead man as gay so the media and civilians have a scapegoat, especially when gays were hated more. Remember the USS Missouri explosion?
If you're receiving notifications via email, Google (in their infinite wisdom) decided that after August 13, 2020 to eliminate the email notifications. They state they folks are complaining about clogged inboxes from these notifications. They state that you can get them via your Android or Ios devices just fine. Well, there are many folks who use real computers and rely on emails. I'd also bet that Google is checking inboxes on Gmail, where if someone were to use something like Mozilla Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook to pull their emails, then the emails on Gmail will just sit there until they auto-delete. Many folks are livid (as am I) over this stupid decision. I hope this answers your question, or if I'm not on mark for your question, then sorry and thanks for reading this.
Allec, I absolutely love your re-creation videos. So I just wanted to say that the word you were looking for was "ordnance" which means "weaponry". "Ordinance" means "legal rule"
I wonder what the 96 hr review of everything he did up to the launch showed. I imagine it was an exhaustive investigation digging into everything they could find about the guy, especially w the missing bombs etc.
So if there are indications from the bomb rack that he never jettisoned the Mark 82s, and they were designed to survive a crash, yet they were not found at the crash site, then I wonder what scavenger who found the crash site is the proud owner of four, live Mark 82s today? Be kinda hard to move a 500 pound piece of ordnance off the side of a mountain, let alone four of them, but still, that's very..."odd."
If he slammed into the side of a mountain, how reliable is their evidence that the ordinance was never dropped? He probably dropped them earlier in the flight.
LOL. Yeah i have instituted a policy of always giving thumbs down on a video, regardless of its quality, if there is more than one interruption for adverts.
@@markmaki4460 I hear ya. I can't honestly complain about ads, since I run them on my channel. But, I'm amazed that UA-cam algorithms find a way to pick the EXACT APEX of the clip to insert the ad. The creators have no control over where the ads are inserted. Interesting that he gets a mid-roll ad on an 8 minute clip.
I was stationed at Davis Monthan 10 years before this incident. SM was the location of the training command for A-10 pilots. A sad thing that this young man who had so much to live for would take his own life. In addition to the four five hundred pound bombs he also had the 30mm cannon in the nose. If he had wanted to, he could have raised havoc.
Spent 13yrs USN-MCB74 with DOD 14yr. Been retired since 2010... Those goats were used. And everyone that has seen this remembers the day. But you didn't know it till this moment.
I was in the Air Force HAMMER Adaptive Communications Element. Several teammates responded to that search. One of the Airmen flew with Civil Air Patrol search aircraft taking photos of suspected crash sites.
The impression is given that he flew directly toward the Four Corners area, but the list of sightings that follows show that the course he took was anything but direct.
I was stationed at DMAFB from 1992-2000 at the 355th CRS. I was part of the A10 (T34) and C130 (T56) engine backshop off of 1st street DMAFB. Capt Button used to drive and park his motorcycle near the flightline fence before crossing into the flightline area for briefings. His motorcycle was 20 ft behind the back door of our unit. OSI came to interview us after Capt Button flew off with an A10. They wrapped his motorcycle in tape to keep others away from it, then took it 3 days later. I remember Craig Button, seen him many many days outside our unit. Fun fact, Capt Button joined in 1992, same year, I joined. We both had 5 years in the Air Force at that time. I, however, was only a SSgt and 25 yrs old. What a shame, I'll bet his delusional religious mother drove him to this.
Excerpt from New York Times story, Dec. 25, 1998: The Air Force pilot who flew his attack jet into a Colorado mountainside last year was in mental turmoil over ''unrequited love'' for a former girlfriend and over his mother's Christian pacifist faith, a ''psychological autopsy'' by the Air Force has concluded. Air Force officials found last year, basically for lack of a better explanation, that the 32-year-old pilot, Capt. Craig D. Button, committed suicide when, on April 2, 1997, he broke formation from his unit instead of proceeding on a training run and then flew from southern Arizona to the Colorado Rockies. But the psychological report, which was released earlier this month because of legally enforceable requests made by The Tucson Citizen under the Freedom of Information Act, was an effort to explain why. It was based on interviews with about 200 people -- friends, fellow fliers and relatives. A separate section of the report deals with another mystery surrounding the flight: what ever happened to the four 500-pound bombs that were on board the plane? They were never found, and loud explosions in northern Arizona and near the Colorado mountain towns of Telluride and Aspen that were heard by 58 witnesses cited in the report indicate that Captain Button may have dumped them. The bombs were to have been used in the training run, in what would have been the first time that Captain Button had ever dropped live ordnance. The pilot's parents, Richard and Joan Button of Massapequa, N.Y., angrily reject the conclusion that he committed suicide.
wow i knew and read of this but how i read it was break off and go into mountain i didnt know about the crazy ass flight path and sightings until now very interesting and sad
He made the decision , people tend to go to beautiful locations to do this, golden gate bridge, other natural places on earth, every country has certain areas, it's sad but will always be part of the human condition. Think about your family. Good luck.RIP🙏
I live in Tucson about 10 miles north of Davis Monthan AFB where Capt. Buttons was stationed and where he took off from. It turns out that Buttoons was gay and was about to be outted by other USAF personel,and this led to his suicide. Rick Murray
@Chip Whitley They would have had to release the bombs from the racks. Could they then make it appear that the bombs were never released? And...why bother.
@@frankblangeard8865 The real tragedy is the loss of this man's life. But it is mysterious where the bombs went. However, we need to value the human and his condition before we consider the loss of military equipment.
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base A-10s never had tiger teeth nose art. That nose art is only authorized for aircraft of the the 23RD Fighter Group, (Flying Tigers) at Moody Air Force Base, GA.
Also you couldve titled this "The Curious Case of Captain Buttons"
Looks like you´ve been watching JCS - criminal psychology
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So sad. Senator Martha McSally was personally involved in this. She was friends with him as they both were T-37 instructors back in Texas. She came out to Tucson first and then he did. In her book, Dare To Fly, McSally opens up her heart about this situation. She missed a phone call from Button and was not able to get back to him. Was he reaching out for help?
We'll never know, but McSally to her credit, poured her energy into the search and rescue operation. It was almost three weeks after he disappeared that the helicopter McSally was in found the wreckage on a snowy mountainside. The chopper pilot put one skid in the snow and McSally climbed out on the other skid to grab a piece of the wreck for ID. That's when she saw Capt. Button's check list there in the snow and immediately knew he was gone.
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To bad Martha McSally wasn’t the one who flew into the mountain.
@@GRosa250 Ah yes, the tolerant and compassionate Left speaks up.
@@SparkyMcBiff - not a leftist, but i hope you and other trumpists have some parties this winter with other anti-maskers, bring your grandparents. Hopefully you all start dropping like flies; we'll all be better off.
@@analtubegut66 Wow! You are a real jerk.
I live in Arizona and remember this. No one knows what was going on his mind, but we can be grateful he didn't take anyone else with him like the Germanwings pilot.
Too bad we have to read inane remarks like theshit you contaminate forums with......
frogsgottalent Eh?
What would ya say YOU DO HERE?
@@frogsgottalent1106 What?
Yes, excellent point. By the way, ignore the totally bizarre comment immediately below yours, by frogsgottalent. So, he thinks he's a frog that's got talent... that tells everyone here everything they need to know about how many screws are loose in this person's head.
I recall hearing about this at the time. There was a real fear that Captain Button might have turned over the A-10 to a domestic terror group (the Oklahoma City bombing had occurred only two years earlier), but that fear was groundless, and thankfully so. However, we are left with a human tragedy, of motives that will never be known. May Craig Button have found peace in the end.
Frank J. Minjares, Ken Folger, Craig D. Button, Patel- all in Gen Hap Arnold Air Society and Air Force ROTC in the Bronx, NY. All involved in 9/11. Craig backed out. Crashed the A-10 in Colorado to expose the role of his three rogue buddies in 9/11.
Truth stranger than fiction. Davis Monthan AFB in Tucson. 18 of the WTC Bombers started in Tucson at the ICT.
It was Muslim Brotherhood Mafia NWO terrorism. Craig hoped to expose it all.
@@wendyrosen3179 Please provide a *reliable* source for that claim.
With live weapons onboard, I have to wonder why the Air Force didn’t send fighters after him.
It was before 9/11. Security in general was more lax back then.
Pre-9/11.
Gotta catch him first
@@B3Band he's in an A-10, wouldn't be hard to track and catch
tinwoods were you alive “pre-9/11”? Because until that day it was very possible for a handful of people to take over a commercial airliner with box cutters. And none of them were intercepted. Listen to the recordings that day. Our national security was a joke. The responses were slow, nobody sounded confident in their tasks at all, they were dumbfounded to say the least.
There were 7 bases around the country, with fighter jets on alert. And on 9/11 the only fighters that were alert were 2x F-15 from Otis AFB, MA and 2x F-16 from Langley AFB, VA. Now it’s much different.
The alert jets around the country were mainly for threats coming in from the coasts or over Canada. Russian Bears, for instance. Perimeter defense. Not a known friendly civilian airliner or even military, suddenly turning hostile once it is already inside the perimeter. And up until the mid-90's, there were many more jets on alert around the country. East coast, probably every couple hundred miles. Loring ME, Griffiss NY, Langley VA, Shaw, SC, on and on all around the coast and borders. The drawdown of the mid 90's did away with most of that tasking. The F-16s that were going to intercept United 93 weren’t even armed, because it would have taken over 30 mins to do. So both pilots took off unarmed while other jets on ground began being armed. Those two unarmed pilots had come to the conclusion that they were the closest fighters to the hijacked plane, but unfortunately unarmed, so they were going to “ram” United 93 Also known as, a suicide mission. The female pilot was going to come around and crash her aircraft into the cockpit.
Someone climbed the mountain, stole the bombs and now has an awesome coffee table.
Secret Squirrel sick..
Yeah no one dragged 250lb bombs down th he side of a 11000 foot mountain. The bombs were never on the hog.
@@CoIoneIPanic Or at least not on the aircraft when it impacted.
@@willgriffin3490 the ordinance order was blank but because of army regulations that part of the paperwork is redacted and you can't see those fields anyway. Captain Button had a history of messing up, he was a borderline personality and he knew as soon as he reached cruising altitude he had messed up (didn't even bring his bombs with him) so he decided to fly around crazy until he crashed.
@@CoIoneIPanic Thanks for the reply. I'm curious as to why you mention Navy when he was Air Force. The four Mk-82 500 pound bombs were AF assets as well as the A-10. Not trying to argue, just asking questions here.
As for the four MK-82s, even if Captain Buttons had forgotten to verify that his loadout was correct I would think the other 2 Warthogs would notice this. Plus the ammo load for his aircraft is pulled and serial numbers checked and cross checked hours, sometimes days, in advance. Then he went first to refuel and the other 2 a/c would have been behind him and I would hope they would have noticed Captain Buttons was missing 4 MK-82 500 pound bombs since it was a live fire training mission. But I could be wrong.
Also, the bomb racks were still armed. That would suggest that the aircraft had been armed.
Again, not trying to argue. Just asking questions. We may never know the real reason or where the 4 MK-82s went.
From the bomb racks the bombs were never released, the bombs were never found. Guess we'll just have to keep watching PAWN STARS to see if somebody rolls one in there wanting $500 for it, only to have Rick counter with $5.00.
That is troubling as it was a live fire excercise, they went somewhere. With the transponder being turned off, is it possible to land somewhere obscure/out of the way to offload them and reset the releases ? A theory that needs to be answered........
I’m not sure about these bombs specifically but many have a charge that releases them, it’s not like a lever that you can just close. I’m guessing that’s how they know they hadn’t been dropped from the air.
@@heyrod59 good guess.
@@hotdog720 That's the way it was in the 1970's: still pretty much WWII technology. Electromagnetic impulses weren't enough to overcome the friction; so they had a pyrotechnic about the size of a shotgun shell, that actually released the bomb. They may have upgraded since then.
But it is odd that there was no indication of release and yet the racks were found and not the bombs. The story probably lost something in the telling.
Thanks coyote I needed that Lol. 😎👍
A lot of the time, people who have severe emotional distress never show it to their family or friends.
It is a personal burden they have to fight until sometimes it just overcomes them.
Very sad for this officer and his family/friends. RIP
Sadly once he went rogue it became very difficult to go back. The endless interviews and testing and, of course, the inevitable demotion. And the longer he was out the greater the consequences. The poor fellow had put himself into an impossible position. My heart goes out to him. He was obviously suffering.
Another fantastic tale Allec.
That is sad. But at least he had enough selflessness to do it alone.
and cost taxpayers millions of dollars
That’s the part that really scares me, we don’t know what his original plans were. Apparently we had a pilot and an aircraft that went completely off on their own and it appears from the outside of the decision to not bomb a major American city may have been simply a cop out at the very end of his plan. There is way too much that is unknown about this scenario.
@@GiordanDiodato seriously mate why so insensitive show some emotion
A life is more important to consider than an airplane that the military industrial complex was likely more than happy to replace
But he could have done it without destroying a multi-million dollar airplane.
This story is many things, heartbreaking, fascinating and filled with mystery. The mystery of why he chose to do this and the mystery regarding what actually happened to the bombs. Truly this young man must have been very troubled. Only God knows what was happening in his personal life that may well have played a big part in this. I guess the one good thing is he took no one else's life that day only his own. Such a very sad story. Thank you Allec, a fine video.
it's possible the bombs were collected by scavengers.
Which means someone right now in Arizona has live bombs...
@@GiordanDiodato Yes. That's always a possibility.
A Google search even reveals persons who think he was murdered ;-
@@GiordanDiodato if it took so long for the military with all their equipment to even find him, and four months to retrieve his remains, how could someone had gotten to the site and removed 4 live bombs?
I believe I recall hearing that he had broken up with his gf, and that was his favorite place.
So he killed himself yikes well attest he didn't take other people out with him
I wonder where the bombs went, then.
Coward
@@Musique61414
We don't refer to our troops in uniform as cowards. You should delete your post immediately. It is reprehensible.
A woman can be a difficult thing to get over. Esp if children and child custody issues are involved. The fact is that we have no idea at all what made Capt Buttons give up. It even could have been a medical diagnosis involving great future pain. We just don't know.
dobromeister yea, then you’re a hopeless coward. Jkjk. Despite what happened I still respect this man tremendously . Having spent 4+ years in the Air Force I lost 6 coworkers and friends in my squadron due to suicide. I guess it comes down to everyone having a breaking point & people do vastly different things at that point. I think I may have ptsd from watching my brothers end their beautiful lives prematurely. May they all Rest In Peace.
Thanks Allec, one of your all-time best videos for me. Not because of the graphics, music or historical significance. I became interested because of all the mystery behind this crash & the disappearance of the four 500 lb bombs. So many questions & no answers. Since this happened so long ago, I guess we'll never find out. Tarantino needs to make a film about this incident & put his own spin on the ending.
Rest In Peace. We are sorry you felt so much pain from the events in your life.
Two possible and plausible reasons spring to mind. A sudden catastrophic or near catastrophic health failure, or suicide. Feels more like suicide, the fact that he turned South near Aspen and then turned back North again suggests that area had some meaning to the pilot . Very sad for everyone involved as there is so many questions unanswered.
He exposed the 9/11 plot. Backed out. Tucson was also home to 18 of the WTC Bombers.
I remember this as a 14 year old kid. We were stationed at Langley about to move to Holloman at the time. It was back in the days when the news reported on relevant things.
Interesting story..have a great weekend Allec!
You too!
I'd bet dollars to donuts they did scramble fighters. However, it's a needle in a haystack endeavor.
On 9/11 a pair of F-15s were looking for one of the hijacked planes but couldn't find it in time.
Aerial interception is more difficult than one might think unless you get a vector from a powerful ground station (turning off the transponder frustrates that considerably) or from an AWACS (not likely to have one of those just cruising around).
Also, I suspect that given the remote nature of the areas he flew through civilian radar coverage is spotty at best.
You can't tell the A-10 apart from any other traffic with only primary radar.
They couldn't find it in time because they were sent the wrong direction. They scrambled from Otis, then were directed out to sea.
@@sirbader1 , and I don't think their onboard radar has that long of a range, plus the clutter.
From what I've heard bragged an F-14 could have done it (transponder or not) and confirmed with those amazing cameras, but those were gone by then (and IIRC those only operated from carriers.
And Rudolph Hess evaded British radar to make it to Scotland before he simply ran out of fuel.
I’m sure that “Looking Glass” was notified right away. You AF aviation guys will know that terminology
Very fine precise work thanks allec!
Yet again, another very interesting video, Allec. Especially appreciated is you including a picture of Captain Button. We are then able to personalize these events. Well done!
@@txarguy8750 You Tube troll.
Donna, I also appreciated that Allec included a photo of the pilot. It does seem to personalize it more. Such a sad tragic case.
R.I.P CAPTAIN CRAIG D. BUTTON 1964-1997
R.I.P CAPTAIN CRAIG D. BUTTON 1964-1997
@@anandguruji83 lol
@@anandguruji83 I mean Not the person who died you just put 2 times
What a waste.
He made it to the Air Force and committed suicide?
@@747heavyboeing3 You never know what someone is going through. The military is one of those careers that have a high suicidal rate. Can't say it was a waste. He unfortunately just didn't have the right people to talk with to help him out. It's sad that he felt that was his only way out.
The bombs are very heavy and thick steel casing so they probably are deep into the mountain because of the high speed.
Well if he's going fast enough that would make sense
Allec, this was a fascinating story, but the sim was absolutely amazing. I felt like I was in the cockpit with Capt. Button. But then the mountains and terrain rushing by. Wow, just wow! This must have been so complicated to recreate- first class work! And
Love your channel Alec.
Sorry, I misspelled your name Allec
Craig was best buddies with my ex husband.
There were 4 guys in AF ROTC in the Bronx, NY together. They were also all in the Gen. Hap Arnold Civil Air Society.
Craig killed himself in hopes of exposing his ROTC buddies for their role in giving bin Laden the flight plans, load plans, trajectories, so that the 18 WTC Bombers who were in Tucson, AZ at the time, would be exposed. Craig was one of 4 Air Force Officers that went rogue and were part of 9/11. Bin Laden lived in Tucson with Azzam and Wael Hamza Julaiden during the 80's and early 90's. 18 of the 22 WTC Bombers were in Tucson until they went to Coral Gables, Florida.
Craig backed out of 9/11. He killed himself to expose his 3 treasonous ROTC buddies for their upcoming role in 9/11.
Something went terribly wrong in his life and he just wanted to see the beauty of this land one more time before he ended it all. Thank God he wasn't a bad person and didn't take out some city blocks with the bombs he had loaded....
Not an evil person, just egotistical as fuck. It might be hard to see, if oneself too is swallowed by our egoistical comsumer culture. Persons just as this idiotic pilot, will be born under such conditions.
Not a bad person...
He was, at minimum, a thief. He stole a very expensive warplane from the US taxpayers. That's not what good people do.
@@markmaki4460 An absolutely bad person. If you steal millions of dollars, you are a bad person. That is exactly what he did by deliberately crashing that aircraft.
Back in the 80s in the USAF I worked on nuclear missiles in Wyoming. Among many other requirements, we had to certified under something called “PRP”, or “Personnel Reliability Program”. If you were dealing with a problem, family issue, death of a loved one, divorce, or anything that could affect you or your job performance you’d be taken off PRP & out of the field until it could be dealt with. You could take yourself off PRP, as could friends or supervisors. It was in no way a disciplinary action. It was a way to look out for each other and make sure we were at the top of our game and focused on task while doing our jobs. I would assume pilots in charge of million dollar weapon platforms with live munitions would be under something similar. Too bad it failed here.
I recall this pilot as having a rather complex relationship with his mother, who was very religious and disapproved of his military career. One can easily suppose that he felt quite a conflict over this. Especially being the squeaky clean hard worker he was known to be, and probably sought approval just as much.
Seems very similar to the 2018 Q400 “hijacking” at Sea-Tac. He just decided one day to fly around for a while and end it.
not really.. the Q400 thing was more of a "fk it why not". i don't think his intentions were to ever commit suicide from the start but his options were land and be arrested and be charged as a hijacker or have fun til the very last minute and that's what he did.
sirmonkey Maybe this pilot soon realized he’d be court martialed and ruin his life. He might not have been suicidal at first, either.
are you referring to sky king?
joh joh Yep, Beebo himself.
@@sirmonkey1985 He did pretty good for only learning to fly from playing video games.
RIP
Craig D. Button
(1964-1997)
Finally... someone made a video of the Craig Button case. Thanks, Allec!
A family that moved to my street and the dad had been an airforce test pilot. The mom went out to work and he stayed home. He drank a lot. His daughter, my friend said he got drunk and ran thru the house trying to kill her and her brother. I asked my parents and they told me he was alcoholic. They thought it was from the stress of being a test pilot. This was in the 1950s.
Rest in peace Captain Button.
I worked in aged care and looked after many returned WW2 veterans. The ones who were hardest hit were the Air Force vets..because they didn’t see their war until afterwards. These were the men who flew with the RAF and did the bombing runs over Germany. It was only later, after the war when they saw first hand the human toll of what they had done that they fell into a deep, deep depression. They saved Britain, ( not even their country, they were Australian fighters), but at what cost to their own mental health. They fared far worse in old age than the gentlemen had been Japanese prisoners of war. It was a really sad thing to see. I have a lot of respect for airmen, nobody really knows what they go through. Godspeed Captain Button
If the A-10's bomb racks indicated that "the bombs were not released", but the bombs weren't at the crash site, where are the bombs?
Maybe they were not really ever on his plane?
I studied the video and they were GONE!
People reported hearing explosions, but nothing was ever verified.
Some random hiker snatched them.
@@elfucheros sounds logical but it took 4 days to get the body... Imagine how difficult it would be to remove four 500lb bombs from that remote location
LOVE YOUR WORK...
As we have previously discussed in the past...
I still think your Commercial Airline crashes are HANDS DOWN THE BEST!!! Have a good weekend.👍
This is a very informing, entertaining, and cool story like always. Have a great weekend, Alec!
TX ARGUY No jackass, I think his content that he posts in general, learning about aviation events that have happened, and the aircraft featured is. The deaths and injuries are really sad. I like the videos where everyone survives the best anyways.
Lol I LOVE when some shit-talker deletes their comment after getting roasted 😂
Apparently his father was ex-USAF colonel, while his mother was a devout Jehovah's Witness who raised him to think that joining the military is morally wrong and was always urging him to quit. Sounds like a perfect screw-up-your-kid recipe!
She really knew how to push his Button
@@MorganBrown Stick to the thread.
The Watchtower is quite known for screwing up people more. Most JW's are well meaning.
My mom is JW she discouraged me from joining the military out of high school
@@FyourCult ...be kind to your mom as best you can. I've found the great majority of JW's are deeply traumatized and hurt in their earlier years. They compensate for that very real trauma with a need for rigid structure, which the Watchtower offers. Be patient without letting her drive you nuts.
Thank you very much for the new video, really good, than every time. No easy case.
A kid who is raised by an overbearing retired colonel and a devout JW is going to have issues. One of those is that he probably wasn’t allowed to date until an adult. By which time he never had a chance to work out the complex emotions of such and when it went south he didn’t know how to handle it and as others have commented found a permanent solution to a temporary problem. I remember my first adjustment as a teenager to losing my first “love”. I didn’t take it well, but there are always distractions at that age.
Thank you Allec... very interesting story!
somebody watching this please add more to the story...what was going on in this guy's life?? Divorce? Health issues? Has to be more to it.
Scroll up to James Sutherland's comment. The answer is in the replies thread under his comment
You can't do a simple google search and read up on this story?
If only we had access to a wealth of information, at our fingertips. Perhaps only a few keystrokes away.
Probably dated my ex..
@@DannybFlat01 hahahah thats a good one
Great Video Allec👍👍
The US military in action. Needed 2 weeks to find their own plane. Never found the 500 lb bombs. Amazing.
No other hypothesis fits? The missing bombs provide damning evidence: he was smuggling weapons to Sasquatch! :P
Nah... Sasquatch is too busy doing Monster Energy trophy truck commercials.
oh, ffs 😅!
should have gone to Mothman
Wow! The timing of this video couldn't have been any better (for me that is!) I watched a mini-documentary the other day about this specific case. I'll include the link for it, as well as another link that talks about how the A-10 came to be and the engineering involved. Both of them are a good watch. I'm probably a little biased because the A-10 is one of my all time favorite planes.😉 Thanks for sharing yet another wonderfully made video, keep up the great work!👍🏻👍🏻
The story behind the crash:
ua-cam.com/video/_9ZFCIbMU04/v-deo.html
The engineering of the A-10:
ua-cam.com/video/wk6Qr6OO5Xo/v-deo.html
I definitely “Thumbs Up”ed the video! And understanding how much effort Allec puts into his productions, I would like to offer the following suggestion. It really would have been helpful for those of us who aren’t familiar with the SouthWest US to have shown a breadcrumb trail of the sightings. I have no idea how difficult that would have been, so take it for what it’s worth. :)
Not sure if this helps you, but Tucson is in the SE part of Arizona, not far from the Mexico border. So they would have taken off and headed either north or more likely west or northwest since Phoenix is pretty much straight north and I'm pretty sure there's a bombing range to the west/northwest in the SW Arizona desert between Tucson and the California border. When he breaks off he heads northeast, then heads back southwest towards Tucson. Or he could have headed dead south from the Four Corners area and then dead west towards Tucson. He then heads back north and is near Apache Junction, which is dead east of Phoenix, probably 50 miles. He keeps heading north, then at some point turns east towards New Mexico. He then turns north and enters Colorado, eventually turning northeast toward the southwestern part of Colorado. Seems to essentially fly in a circle there before heading back northeast and crashing near Vail, which is west of Denver.
Anyway maybe that helps a bit.
I didn't realize how close this was to my old stomping grounds till they mentioned Apache Junction. That's just outside Williams AFB. Granted wee had been shut down for 4 years by then, but it still feels to close to home. We lost a few T-37's in the mountains while I was there. Base Commander lost his job over that one.
You are soo good at making these videos! Thanks
That's a big gamble with a 30-million dollar aircraft, Mister....
I recall this too and recall also hearing it was over a list girlfriend.
More to it than that -- there was some evidence in the press at the time that Button had discovered that he was gay and didn't want to live with it. Just too bad he had to take one of Uncle Sam's very expensive aircraft with him when he could have committed suicide by jumping off a cliff.
@dobromeister A Jehovah's Witness who opposed war and visited him a week before.
@@hshs5756 I've never seen any evidence of that. Often times the military lists a dead man as gay so the media and civilians have a scapegoat, especially when gays were hated more. Remember the USS Missouri explosion?
Legend has it that he joined in with Doug Masters. And this is why we have our freedom. We will never forget! Iron Eagle !
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Why are you so lazy to not type eo?
I thought the ending was going to be he flew the plane into his ex mother in laws house
A-10 thunderbolt is one beautiful aircraft
Wow never knew that awesome work Alec
Thank you. Very sad.
Allec, I absolutely love your re-creation videos. So I just wanted to say that the word you were looking for was "ordnance" which means "weaponry".
"Ordinance" means "legal rule"
Great video man! I’m hooked.
Never heard of this incident. Very interesting.
The mystery is where are the bombs? My sympathies to his family and friends.
I saw someone speculate that they could be buried in the mountain since they were made to withstand a crash.
Weird, he flew hundreds of miles off and crashed,
Had to fly to the mountains
@@coca-colayes1958 What for?
Probably just wanted to have some fun before hanging up his coat, poor fella
Someone said in the comments that was his favorite spot to visit with his ex girlfriend, allegedly why he killed himself
Interesting video Alled
I wonder what the 96 hr review of everything he did up to the launch showed. I imagine it was an exhaustive investigation digging into everything they could find about the guy, especially w the missing bombs etc.
If you want to commit suicide, that your affair, but why destroy a mega million dollar aircraft that doesn't belong to you!
Interesting story. Great animations allec
Not one of DM's finer moments. He was so young. Thank you Joshua.
Thank you, Mr. Ibay.
So if there are indications from the bomb rack that he never jettisoned the Mark 82s, and they were designed to survive a crash, yet they were not found at the crash site, then I wonder what scavenger who found the crash site is the proud owner of four, live Mark 82s today? Be kinda hard to move a 500 pound piece of ordnance off the side of a mountain, let alone four of them, but still, that's very..."odd."
If he slammed into the side of a mountain, how reliable is their evidence that the ordinance was never dropped? He probably dropped them earlier in the flight.
Depression is a dangerous enemy. RIP Captain Buttons 😔✝️
Button flies his A-10 into Gold Dust Peak...seconds later, I get an ad for Just For Men.
LOL. Yeah i have instituted a policy of always giving thumbs down on a video, regardless of its quality, if there is more than one interruption for adverts.
@@markmaki4460 I hear ya. I can't honestly complain about ads, since I run them on my channel. But, I'm amazed that UA-cam algorithms find a way to pick the EXACT APEX of the clip to insert the ad. The creators have no control over where the ads are inserted. Interesting that he gets a mid-roll ad on an 8 minute clip.
@@markmaki4460 Why? It's just how monetization works. Sadly, youtubers can't really control at what times that occurs.
Thank You So Much, I'm from an aviation family sad to see this happen.
A story of unanswered questions. Of mans self identity, of the 'who I am'.
Allec your the best!!!!
Thanks
I was actually out all weekend in a search mission looking for him.
Me too! Were you the guy with the hat that had a propeller on top of it?
Wassup Allec hope you have a good day
I was stationed at Davis Monthan 10 years before this incident. SM was the location of the training command for A-10 pilots. A sad thing that this young man who had so much to live for would take his own life. In addition to the four five hundred pound bombs he also had the 30mm cannon in the nose. If he had wanted to, he could have raised havoc.
He wasn’t going on the mission because he didn’t agree. Good man for sure.
Spent 13yrs USN-MCB74 with DOD 14yr. Been retired since 2010... Those goats were used. And everyone that has seen this remembers the day. But you didn't know it till this moment.
It's frustrating to me that this ended without an ending...
I was in the Air Force HAMMER Adaptive Communications Element. Several teammates responded to that search. One of the Airmen flew with Civil Air Patrol search aircraft taking photos of suspected crash sites.
The impression is given that he flew directly toward the Four Corners area, but the list of sightings that follows show that the course he took was anything but direct.
MFS2020 is out, and my man is still using FS2004. Respect.
MFS2020 doesn't have many planes in stock quite yet. I'm sure once they add more, AJI may consider a change.
Great episode
One of the sweetest jobs on the planet and he does this.
RIP Sir!
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Rest In Piece for the Captain
I was stationed at DMAFB from 1992-2000 at the 355th CRS. I was part of the A10 (T34) and C130 (T56) engine backshop off of 1st street DMAFB. Capt Button used to drive and park his motorcycle near the flightline fence before crossing into the flightline area for briefings. His motorcycle was 20 ft behind the back door of our unit. OSI came to interview us after Capt Button flew off with an A10. They wrapped his motorcycle in tape to keep others away from it, then took it 3 days later. I remember Craig Button, seen him many many days outside our unit.
Fun fact, Capt Button joined in 1992, same year, I joined. We both had 5 years in the Air Force at that time. I, however, was only a SSgt and 25 yrs old. What a shame, I'll bet his delusional religious mother drove him to this.
I’m so sad to hear about this! Also, I thank you for your service! 🫡❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Never forget Captain Button!
Excerpt from New York Times story, Dec. 25, 1998: The Air Force pilot who flew his attack jet into a Colorado mountainside last year was in mental turmoil over ''unrequited love'' for a former girlfriend and over his mother's Christian pacifist faith, a ''psychological autopsy'' by the Air Force has concluded.
Air Force officials found last year, basically for lack of a better explanation, that the 32-year-old pilot, Capt. Craig D. Button, committed suicide when, on April 2, 1997, he broke formation from his unit instead of proceeding on a training run and then flew from southern Arizona to the Colorado Rockies.
But the psychological report, which was released earlier this month because of legally enforceable requests made by The Tucson Citizen under the Freedom of Information Act, was an effort to explain why. It was based on interviews with about 200 people -- friends, fellow fliers and relatives.
A separate section of the report deals with another mystery surrounding the flight: what ever happened to the four 500-pound bombs that were on board the plane? They were never found, and loud explosions in northern Arizona and near the Colorado mountain towns of Telluride and Aspen that were heard by 58 witnesses cited in the report indicate that Captain Button may have dumped them.
The bombs were to have been used in the training run, in what would have been the first time that Captain Button had ever dropped live ordnance.
The pilot's parents, Richard and Joan Button of Massapequa, N.Y., angrily reject the conclusion that he committed suicide.
wow i knew and read of this but how i read it was break off and go into mountain i didnt know about the crazy ass flight path and sightings until now very interesting and sad
He made the decision , people tend to go to beautiful locations to do this, golden gate bridge, other natural places on earth, every country has certain areas, it's sad but will always be part of the human condition. Think about your family. Good luck.RIP🙏
Found myself lined up with the business end of low flying A10 while driving down the road yesterday and recalled this incident, and here we are.
Syncronicity at it's best. Woa...
I would say someone is not being honest.
RIP. Poor guy had everything to live for. But it is a quick way to go.
Alec: I have the details of an ARMY crash in Charlevoix, Michigan in August of 1943 if you're interested...
I live in Tucson about 10 miles north of Davis Monthan AFB where Capt. Buttons was stationed and where he took off from. It turns out that Buttoons was gay and was about to be outted by other USAF personel,and this led to his suicide. Rick Murray
At that time wasn't the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy in effect? That was the rumor at the time.
A-10 Goes BRRRRT
Meanwhile On Brm5: “ Crash Site “
Bomb racks recovered. Bombs never released. Bombs never found. There is the real mystery.
It took them 20 days to find the wreckage. One could do a lot with the crash site in that amount of time.
@@BillGreenAZ I don't understand your reply. What may have been done to the crash site and by whom regarding the bombs?
@Chip Whitley They would have had to release the bombs from the racks. Could they then make it appear that the bombs were never released? And...why bother.
@Chip Whitley Google 'Pentagon lost track of weapons'. Easier to steal from 'accounted inventory' than from a mountain side.
@@frankblangeard8865 The real tragedy is the loss of this man's life. But it is mysterious where the bombs went. However, we need to value the human and his condition before we consider the loss of military equipment.
This is really sad...
And also, not a single answer in the comments.
Best video ever
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Great video.
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base A-10s never had tiger teeth nose art. That nose art is only authorized for aircraft of the the 23RD Fighter Group, (Flying Tigers) at Moody Air Force Base, GA.