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