June 6, 2016
By Aimee Ortiz
Two local men (click here) may have solved the mystery of a flight that crashed into the Andes mountains 31 years ago.
By Aimee Ortiz
Two local men (click here) may have solved the mystery of a flight that crashed into the Andes mountains 31 years ago.
According to a blog post written by Dan Futrell, of Cambridge, he and Isaac Stoner, of Somerville, have located the missing “black boxes” from Eastern Airlines Flight 980, a Boeing 727 that was flying from Paraguay to Florida on Jan. 1, 1985, when it crashed into Mount Illimani, Bolivia’s second-highest point. All 29 people on board died.
Nine months later, the search for Flight 980’s wreckage had investigators searching “the snowy peaks and ragged crevices of the Andes” with little found more than bits of the aircraft and some passenger cabin items....
