In 1962, Flight 739 disappeared over the Pacific. Grieving families still want answers.
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HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - On March 16, 1962, three years before the US entered the Vietnam War, a transport airliner from the Flying Tiger Line was bound for Saigon.
Between Guam and the Philippines, it suddenly disappeared.
Jennifer Kirk’s uncle, Army soldier Donald Sargent, was on board.
“I think for the families it’s the unknown, not knowing what happened to that plane. What was there mission? Where were they going?” she said.
An ocean tanker reported a mid-air explosion, but a search turned up no wreckage or remains.
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Apr. 29 The full-length bronze memorial on the empty grave in Pickens hints at how Ross Walker died. Perished over the Pacific Ocean, says the marker at Hillcrest Memorial Park.
That is all the Walker family and the families of 92 other servicemen aboard Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 know.
The military charter jet on route to Saigon was lost over the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean on March 15, 1962, three years before President Lyndon Johnson sent combat troops to Vietnam.