Navy to Seek Bombs Lost in Plane Crash
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
U.S. Navy bomb disposal experts will begin searching six mountain lakes in Colorado this week for bombs lost in the mysterious April 2 crash of an A-10 fighter jet, Air Force officials said in Washington, D.C. The remains of the pilot killed in the crash, Capt. Craig Button, were found in late April in wreckage on Gold Dust Peak in the Rocky Mountains, but four 500-pound bombs carried by his attack jet have not been located.
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