View of Plane crash

[jon lynn]

captain2k_ca

Do you think it was one of the old ones with the 13 piston radial engines, or an old USN surplus with a semi modernized turboprop.

When I was in the Army I read an article in the Army Times in 1986 that the Navy reserve was 'upgrading' the DC3's still in service.

Although the words 'still in service' and DC-3 didn't seem just right, considering I had just stepped off a C130 the day before.

And keep in mind some of those DC-3's, being civilian, may be old Soviet productions. Being a former air defender, I learned in one of my many classes that the Soviets built copies of the DC-3 UNTIL 1985!!!
If it was one of those...wow then the pilot should be put in for sainthood!