The quest to recover one Vietnam-era Air Force pilot lost in Lake Huron crash
Dylan Gresik
On June 13, 1966, a young George Beebe, working on the roof of a hospital, swears he saw a powerless fighter jet gliding low over Lake Huron, a faint trail of smoke following. As it disappears out of his sight, Beebe scrambles to alert the nearby Coast Guard station about a potential downed aircraft.
Hours earlier, U.S. Air Force Maj. William J. Vinopal of the 71st Fighter Interceptor Squadron climbed into his Convair F-106A Delta Dart, a single-seat, flight interceptor aircraft, for a routine training mission over the lake.
It would turn out to be his last flight, and Beebe, a former Air Force jet engineer mechanic himself, may have been one of the last people to see the airman alive.
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2020/03/02/the-quest-to-recover-one-vietnam-era-air-force-pilot-lost-in-lake-huron-crash/
