Searchers scanning Caribbean waters where a U.S....
Searchers scanning Caribbean waters where a U.S. Air Force plane carrying 21 Americans is believed to have gone down said they made sonar contact with what may be the C-130’s wreckage. Search parties on a beach north of Puerto Castillo, Honduras, found a sleeping bag, helmets and an unused life raft with the serial number of the missing aircraft, the Defense Department announced. The plane, carrying eight Army and eight Air Force personnel and a crew of five, disappeared Tuesday in stormy weather off Honduras.
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