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Bob Cornell " Blueghost 35"
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Date Posted: 05:55:22 11/16/02 Sat
In reply to:
Jerry L. McLendon
's message, "Larron D. Murphy" on 15:14:45 11/10/02 Sun
Jerry, I can give you some insight on Murph's last mission,
it was late night about 11:30 or midnite, we got a scramble
for an emergency extraction of a Lerp team we had put in
earlier, they were pinned down, and surrounded according to
our radio contact, Bob Drury, was team lead with Murph flying his wing, I was the extraction bird, with the old man Paul
Stalker flying my cover. It was a terrible night for flying,
the weather was socked in, our initial attempt to the
location was to stay as low as possible flying out through
the valley south of LZ West, but the valley was totally
socked in, we came back out, got some altitude an made an
attempt to go out on top, we all some went IFR, we all went
to a black-out {shut off nav's and strobe's}and continued on
our mission calling out our heading and altitude constantly
to maintain seperation. I made the decision that I was not
going to take the risk of me and my crew of going down through the socked in mountains, not knowing exactly where we were to attempt the extraction, myself and Maj. Stalker
made 180's started aclimb and headed toward the south China Sea, Drury and Murph were going to try to get a radio fix on the Lerp team and give them some fire support, it seemed
like only seconds after we turned that Murph called out that
he was crashing, his voice was as a state of surprise, my
best guess was that he and Eads had flown into a mountian.
We, Blueghost searched for the daily with no luck. I do
understand that they were recently found, or at least the crash site, identified, and repatrioted . If I can be of more assistance to your effort please feel free to contact me. Bob Cornell "Ghost 35"
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