The World - News from March 2, 1986
U.S. military teams left Laos and Vietnam with the apparent remains of crewmen of an American plane shot down during the Vietnam War and with information about 49 servicemen still listed as missing in action. The remains, unearthed from a jungle site in Laos where an AC-130 gunship crashed in 1972, were flown to Hawaii where forensic experts will analyze the bone fragments, seeking the victims’ identities. The team sent to Vietnam received new information about 49 MIAs and was told that the remains of some of them have been found and will be repatriated.
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