Airline pilot flies dad's remains home from Vietnam 52 years after seeing him off at same Dallas airport
Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY Published 3:21 p.m. ET Aug. 8, 2019 | Updated 4:30 p.m. ET Aug. 9, 2019
Southwest Airlines pilot Bryan Knight's father was an Air Force Major who was shot down in 1967 during combat. Decades later, he was able to fly his father home in the same airport he said goodbye to him in all those years ago.
When Air Force Maj. Roy Knight, Jr., left Dallas for Vietnam 52 years ago, his 5-year-old son, Bryan, came to Dallas Love Field to see him off. On Thursday, Bryan, now a captain for Southwest Airlines, brought back his father's remains aboard a flight to the same Dallas airport.
Knight, born in Garner, Texas, was 36 when he was shot down while attacking a target on the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos on May 19,1967, according to White’s Funeral Home in Weatherford, Texas.
Jackson Proskow, Washington bureau chief for Canada's Global News, was on a layover from El Paso to Washington on Thursday when he witnessed the moving ceremony at the airport. Proskow watched as the flag-draped casket was delivered into the arms of a military honor guard.
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