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Friday, September 02, 2005

Shepherd's pilot, downed plane finally found
Thirty-six years after Allen S. Shepherd was shot down during a reconnaissance mission in Laos in 1968, Pentagon finally found the remains of his crew mate, Air Force Col. Gregg Hartness, as well as the wreckage of their downed plane.

Hartness was the pilot and Shepherd took reconnaissance photos in a twin-seat Cessna O-2A "Skymaster."

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