The closer they looked, the more they found. Vail Mountain Rescue member Tim Reinholtz landed on the cover of USA Today. Airman's Flight to His Death Is Laid to Mental Anguish. Captain Craig Button was never heard from again. uniform in the house. The main route is red while the alternative route is blue, both with the directions described in the route planner.To find out about fuel costs use the form for Calculation of the cost of the Captain, VA to Sandpiper Park, AZ trip. Craig Button, mysteriously disappeared April 2 while on a training run over Arizona. Craig Button, who flew his A-10 Thunderbolt attack plane into Gold Dust Peak. However, they did determine that drugs or alcohol were not involved. Local HAATS helicopter pilots each spent at least 700 hours cleaning up the mess. Laborers, Select Supervisors, Garden Designers, and Irrigation positions are available.…, Front Desk Agent Are you a hardworking, organized person who loves meeting new people? 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He spent four years at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas as a T-37 first assignment instructor pilot (FAIP) before transferring to the A-10 at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona.He had been an Air Force pilot for five years before the crash. • The Air Force concluded the jet probably had two to five minutes of fuel remaining when it crashed. Directed by Michael Schlossman. Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part series looking back at the April 1997 crash of Capt. Craig Button, it says, reared as an only child of elderly parents, broke as a teen-ager with his parents' faith. An avid skier, Captain Button had skied in the Colorado Rockies, had been reprimanded by the Air Force for often going out of his way to fly over the Rockies and had talked of one day leaving the Air Force to fly commercial jets out of Denver. • Button was on a training mission with two other A-10s from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. I'll be dropping live bombs (500-pounders) this week," he wrote his landlords, Rozetta and Ben Pingenot. Button was 800 miles off course when he crashed on April 2, 1997. Two decades later, we have a clear picture of what happened, but why remains a mystery. Despite the fact that his transponder was turned off, radar and witness accounts state that Button’s A-10 had headed towards the Rockies. 7. Route from Captain, VA to Oyster Creek Campground, CA. Air Force officials found last year, basically for lack of a better explanation, that the 32-year-old pilot, Capt. • Button flew hundreds of miles off course without radio contact. But she talked with Air Force investigators on April 17, 1997, two weeks after his plane's disappearance and nearly two weeks before his remains were found. Button flew over New York Lake at 300 miles per hour, passed within two miles of Craig Mountain and crashed into Gold Dust Peak, just below the 13,365-foot summit in the Holy Cross Wilderness. His mother was a Jehovah's Witness, and his father had joined the denomination after retiring from the Air Force. • He did not attempt to eject before the crash. Several A-10 pilots were flown up there and they identified the wreckage. Must have clean driving record. “Joel Best was hovering so close it looked like his blades would hit the mountainside,” Sutton said. But around Christmas 1996, the woman, who was coming out of another relationship, called him. They were never found, and loud explosions in northern Arizona and near the Colorado mountain towns of Telluride and Aspen that were heard by 58 witnesses cited in the report indicate that Captain Button may have dumped them. “There are some things we’re never going to know,” said Dan Smith of Vail Mountain Rescue. Lieutenant Hurlburt, a B-17 pilot who flew over Germany in World War II, was killed when he crashed in Florida in 1943. • Craig David Button (Nov. 24, 1964-April 2, 1997) was a United States Air Force pilot who died when he crashed an A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft under mysterious circumstances. a. The $8.8 million aircraft is designed to attack ground targets, including tanks, and was used extensively during the Persian Gulf War. The Air Force said it might have been unrequited love. That same Air Force report — the one for which 200 people were interviewed — says 58 witnesses heard loud explosions in northern Arizona and near Telluride and Aspen, indicating Button may have dropped them. Tomorrow: Cleaning up the crash site took all summer. The training mission would have been the first time Captain Button dropped live ordnance. Later, the captain told a friend that he had thrown away her Christmas card unread, proof, he said, that he had got over the relationship. Air Force spokespersons at the time smiled patiently and explained that because the facility is designed to withstand a nuclear blast, 500-pound bombs wouldn’t make a dent in the door. “We might never know what caused Capt. "Capt. Near Gila Bend, Arizona, after being refueled in-flight, Button unexpectedly broke formation. Others speculated that he was headed to Colorado Springs to drop his 500-pound bombs on Cheyenne Mountain, home of the North American Air Defense Command. This training mission would have been the first time Captain Button dropped live ordnance. “They pulled that out of a hat: that he must have done it himself, which I think is a lie,” Richard Button, Craig’s father and a retired Air Force colonel who fought in three wars, told the New York Times. 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Craig Button, the US Air Force pilot who crashed into a mountain range for no apparent reason, was reportedly afraid that his gay affair with another pilot would be made public. cadet at the New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, N.Y. And an old classmate from the R.O.T.C. The map shows the fastest and shortest way to travel by car, bus or bike. The pilot's parents, Richard and Joan Button of Massapequa, N.Y., angrily reject the conclusion that he committed suicide. He was not gay, a big deal in the military 20 years ago, although some unfounded media reports at the time incorrectly indicated he might have been. The main route is red while the alternative route is blue, both with the directions described in the route planner.To find out about fuel costs use the form for Calculation of the cost of the Captain, VA to Oyster Creek Campground, CA trip. Craig Button, the pilot of the A-10, on the night before his fatal flight. But the psychological report, which was released earlier this month because of legally enforceable requests made by The Tucson Citizen under the Freedom of Information Act, was an effort to explain why. Email 2Vs@comcast.net Call 970-547-1659, Vail, Beaver Creek and Eagle Valley, Colorado News. Captain Button was commissioned through the Air Force ROTC program at New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, New York, where he received a degree in aerospace engineering in 1990. Staff Writer Randy Wyrick can be reached at 970-748-2935 and rwyrick@vaildaily.com. It was April 20, 1997 and pilot Dale Jensen of the Colorado National Guard’s High Altitude Aviation Training Site was flying an OH-58 scout helicopter. $17.50/Hr. The Air Force spent most of the summer searching around New York Mountain, near Vail, and have been looking into the background of the pilot, Capt. Mr. Button, who served in the Air Force during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War before retiring as a lieutenant colonel, noted that his son's plane broke from formation just after it had been refueled in the air. Craig Button pulled away from a training sortie in Arizona and crashed in the Colorado Rockies, leaving the Air Force with a Puzzle on Gold Dust Peak. “We used to joke that if we knew we’d have to spend our whole summer, seven days a week, we would never have found it,” Jensen said, laughing. ''My mother is a Jehovah's Witness, raised me to think that joining the military is wrong,'' Craig Button wrote to a commander as a 23-year-old Air Force R.O.T.C. The Air Force report concludes, ''It was a dramatic example of a man who seems to have everything going for him in his life, yet cannot have the woman he loves passionately.'' The Air Force report -- which was released only after the service's Office of Special Investigations had blackened out the names of almost everyone interviewed -- sketches a picture of a ''perfectionist'' who was inwardly torn by his relationships with his mother and a former girlfriend. Some were a little hair-raising. The successful applicant will work on…, Warehouse Manager Full time position with benefits, Paid vacation, 401K, and Health Care plan. Hurlburt Field, an Air Force base in Florida, is named for him. On his final flight, Craig Button, a New York City native, roared over New York Lake at 300 miles an hour, passed within two miles of Craig Mountain and crashed into Gold Dust Peak. A military search team said it recovered the remains of Air Force Captain Craig Button, who veered away from a training flight in his attack jet on 2 April and crashed on Colorado's Gold Dust Peak. May 5, 1997 -"All Warfare is based on Deception" Air Force Captain Craig Button, 32, the A-10 pilot whose attack plane allegedly crashed into a 13,000 foot mountain in the Rockies, allegedly committed suicide because he was afraid his estranged male lover, another flier, was about to expose their affair, according to a May 2, 1997 report in Arizona's Tucson Citizen. Harris asked “Pappy” about McSally’s website and some posting that had “struck a nerve with him and other A-10 pilots, who had the same reaction to her version of history” The pilots were particularly disturbed by her account of the deaths of two A- 10 pilots Captain Craig Button and Captain … We think that caused the accident. Donald Hurlburt. Air Force officials found last year, basically for lack of a better explanation, that the 32-year-old pilot, Capt. Oct. 25: Today in Arizona history. In the last reported sighting, Button is northeast of Aspen, near Craig's Peak and New York Mountain. His jet was spotted numerous times by observers on the ground. Busy Edwards medical and therapy practice is looking for a F/T energetic and detail-oriented person for front…, CTL|Thompson Inc. seeks a Project Geotechnical Engineer or Geologist for its Breckenridge, CO office. Domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh was on trial while searchers scoured Gold Dust Peak for bits of Button. • Button’s $9 million single-seat A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft was armed with four Mk-82 bombs, 60 magnesium flares, 120 metal chaff canisters and 575 rounds of 30-millimeter ammunition. Button’s remains that were recovered were so small that investigators could not test for anything such as carbon monoxide poisoning. CAPT. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. The Air Force determined that Button was flying his aircraft manually and purposefully. Captain Button revered his father and his father's half-brother, Lieut. He suggested that his son was disoriented by jet fuel fumes, could not control his plane and crashed. Craig Button suddenly went missing in an A-10 Thunderbolt fighter, finally crashing in Colorado. She was in a work meeting but took down his new telephone number and said she would call him back. For years, a sign at the Gold Dust Peak trailhead warned that hikers might encounter 30 mm ammunition. Air Force pararescue jumpers were scrambled out of Las Vegas. On April 2 this year, Air Force Capt. Craig D. Button, committed suicide when, on April 2, 1997, he broke formation from his unit instead of proceeding on a training run and then flew from southern Arizona to the Colorado Rockies. • Craig David Button (Nov. 24, 1964-April 2, 1997) was a United States Air Force pilot who died when he crashed an A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft under mysterious circumstances. Button did not land his A-10 safely in some secret location and he was not murdered by the military to cover up UFOs, as some conspiracy theorists claim. He flew in a northeasterly direction toward Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah come together in one spot. Bo Horvat has been the heart and soul of the Vancouver Canucks for a half-decade by now. Leo Devine, a Pentagon spokesman said at the time. Button loved skiing so much that the Air Force officially reprimanded him for often going out of his way to fly over the Rocky Mountains. U.S. Air Force Capt. References and Resume required. Benefits and mileage provided. But in the weeks before Captain Button's crash, he seemed to some people to have become disillusioned with his life in the military. His parents angrily rejected that conjecture and lambasted the media for suggesting their son may have sabotaged the flight. However, they do not interfere with or oppose individuals who choose to serve in the military. '', And Lieut. Witnesses claimed to have seen all kinds of things. Air Force para-rescue troops begin searching for Capt. ''She advised there were no arguments with her son over religion during their visit in Tucson,'' the Air Force interviewer wrote, referring to a weeklong visit by the parents that ended, apparently amicably, one week before Captain Button's last flight. The fate of those four 500-pound bombs remains a mystery. '', In any event, the pilot's half-sister, Susane Button, told an investigator that his mother had wanted him ''to leave the military for the airlines. Craig Button intended to die or be rescued by divine intervention of God … Investigators found in Button's bed-stand the Bible and a religious pamphlet, which described "God asking a father to sacrifice his only son on a burning pyre at the side of a mountain," the report said. Button’s $9 million, single-seat A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft took off on a training mission with two other A-10s from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. Brian Gross, a pilot who shared an apartment with Captain Button at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, near Tucson, Ariz., said that in the month before he disappeared, his ''mother became increasingly vocal in her negative feelings towards her son's job and role in the military.''. In the last reported sighting, Button is northeast of Aspen, near Craig’s Peak and New York Mountain. While flying in a three plane formation, Capt. A separate section of the report deals with another mystery surrounding the flight: what ever happened to the four 500-pound bombs that were on board the plane? Route from Captain, VA to Sandpiper Park, AZ. The map shows the fastest and shortest way to travel by car, bus or bike. (Craig) Button to fly north,” Capt. $18-20/hr To apply, please…, 7-Up is looking for a Full time Merchandiser in Summit County. (They did conclude that he had not been using drugs or alcohol before the crash.). Button's plane, armed with four 500-pound bombs, deliberately broke formation and veered nearly 800 miles off course. CRAIG BUTTON WAS excited about unloading his first real bomb. Is there a connection? Mrs. Button has declined to be interviewed by reporters about her son's death. In its psychological report, the Air Force says it interviewed about 200 people, including friends, fellow pilots and relatives. - Competitive Pay - Competitive Benefits - Employee Stock…, Now Hiring! • Craig David Button (Nov. 24, 1964-April 2, 1997) was a United States Air Force pilot who died when he crashed an A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft under mysterious circumstances. ''There were no flare-ups, no extreme arguments relating to any faith.''. VAIL — Instead of touching down safely, Air Force Captain Craig D. Button touched off a mystery that will never be solved when he broke formation in his A-10 Thunderbolt near Gila, Ariz., flew 800 miles off course as he zigzagged across northern Arizona and Colorado and crashed into Gold Dust Peak in the Holy Cross Wilderness near Vail. A 1998 Air Force report suggests unrequited love and conflicting emotions between learning to kill as a member of the military, juxtaposed with his mother’s Jehovah’s Witness and pacifist philosophy. • Button was on a training mission with two other A-10s from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. Craig David Button (November 24, 1964 - April 2, 1997) was a United States Air Force pilot who died when he mysteriously crashed an A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft on April 2, 1997. Button’s father flew for the Air Force during World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Wreckage was scattered across an area roughly a quarter-mile square. The last A-10 crash was in April, when Capt. HAATS Commander Gen. Joel Best tended to fly his helicopter like a surgical tool. On April 2, 1997, a U.S. Air Force A-10 attack jet, commanded by Captain Craig Button, mysteriously disappeared and crashed 90 minutes after takeoff from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tuscon, Arizona. Craig Button from their perch on a cliff about 12,500 feet high at Gold Dust Peak, Colo., near wreckage of A-10. They spent most of the summer cleaning up the mess, pulling bits of A-10 and ordnance off Gold Dust Peak one piece at a time. EAGLE, Colorado (CNN) -- A recovery team returned from a remote mountain peak Monday with the remains of Capt. Craig Button was flying the third of three A-10s on April 2 as the formation approached a practice range … His jet was armed with four Mk-82 500-pound bombs, 60 magnesium flares, 120 metal chaff canisters and 575 rounds of 30-millimeter ammunition. On April 2nd, Captain Button took off from the runway at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base for the last time. • Craig David Button (Nov. 24, 1964-April 2, 1997) was a U.S. Air Force pilot who died when he crashed an A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft under mysterious circumstances. '', See the article in its original context from. Captain Craig Button The 32-year-old A-10 pilot was flying an allegedly routine training mission on April 2, 1997 when he broke formation and headed … It was based on interviews with about 200 people -- friends, fellow fliers and relatives. The Discovery Channel did a documentary about it. The Best Western Plus Eagle Lodge…, Hiring For Multiple Positions; Install labor Lawn specialist Garden specialist Mechanic DOE. Some said Button circled the Maroon Bells and made an approach in Crawford. • It took three weeks to find the crash site, and all summer to clean it up. That was well after he refueled in the air. By 1996, the captain was telling his friends that he had got over this woman, who at that point was an Air Force flight instructor. The national media grabbed the story and descended on Eagle. He and Rich Rugg were taking one last pass over the area where Button’s plane was believed to have crashed. A United States Air Force Captain and onetime instructor pilot, Button was flying his A-10 warplane in a training mission over Arizona when, for reasons still unknown, he broke formation and took off on a jagged, 500-mile solo flight, buzzing several ski areas and making a detailed approach to one small Colorado airport, before finally smashing into a rock face at 12, 500 feet near Vail, Colorado. By most accounts, Captain Craig Button, 32, was a straight arrow, an accomplished pilot right out of Top Gun who had been flying since he was 15--a young man from New York's Long Island who loved cars, motorcycles and skiing, and who was, as a former college classmate put … Why did Captain Craig Button break formation from his squadron and fly over 800 miles from his home base near Phoenix, Arizona and crash his A-10 into Craig's Peak near New York Mountain on April 2, 1997 just 2 weeks after the UFO waves in Norfolk and Phoenix? ''There were no arguments between the two,'' Richard Button said. After 20 days, the Air Force called off the search for a few weeks to wait for warmer weather and the snow to melt. ''They pulled that out of a hat: that he must have done it himself, which I think is a lie,'' Mr. Button said in a telephone interview. Craig Button and possibly a round of … The Air Force pilot who flew his attack jet into a Colorado mountainside last year was in mental turmoil over ''unrequited love'' for a former girlfriend and over his mother's Christian pacifist faith, a ''psychological autopsy'' by the Air Force has concluded. Craig Button. Button broke away from a three-plane formation. Sutton flew 22 missions during the search. program told an Air Force investigator that Mrs. Button ''would not allow him to wear his R.O.T.C. • He crashed into Gold Dust Peak in the Holy Cross Wilderness. • Button … COMPETATIVE PAY Please email…, Now Hiring - Teller Financial stability, great employees, and exceptional customers. The bombs were to have been used in the training run, in what would have been the first time that Captain Button had ever dropped live ordnance. • Button flew hundreds of miles off course without radio contact.
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