Experts believe that a wreckage of a private corporate jet that disappeared after departing from Vermont in 1971 has been found over 50 years later in Lake Champlain.
Experts believe that they have found the wreckage of a corporate private jet 200 feet below the surface in Lake Champlain in Vermont that fatefully crashed more than 50 years ago. The private plane, with the registration N400CP, disappeared shortly after taking off from Burlington en route to Providence, Rhode Island, on Jan. 27, 1971. Pilots Donald Myers and George Nikita along with passengers Richard Windsor, Robert Williams and Frank Wilder were onboard the 1971 flight.
But the jet's crash site was unearthed last month by underwater searcher Garry Kozak and a team of researchers. Kozak said that the team used sonar imaging to confirm the plane's custom paintwork matched the missing jet. With all those pieces of evidence, we’re 99% absolutely sure,' Kozak told NBC 10 Boston. Following the historical find, families were left with mixed feelings. 'To have this found now ... it’s peaceful feeling, at the same time it’s a very sad feeling,' Barbara Nikitas, niece of pilot George Nikita, said in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday. 'We know what happened. We’ve seen a couple of photos. We’re struggling I think with that now.
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