What really happened to Flight 293?

The families of those who were lost are still searching for answers and recognition more than 60 years later. #k5evening

KENT, Wash. — On June 3, 1963, a 17-year-old Army private named Bruce Barrowman bid farewell to his little brother, Greg, on the tarmac at McChord Air Force Base.

“He reached out, shook my hand and said, ‘Remember, Greg, be a man,'” Barrowman said, choking back tears. “And he gave me a little nod and wink and that was the last I saw of him.”

The Douglas DC-7 carrying Bruce and 100 other servicemen, families and crew disappeared on its way to Alaska. 

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