Silt A-6 Newspaper clippings (Supplied by Duke Sumonia)

3/18/79 A search party Sat. found the wreckage of a Navy jet and the body of the pilot, who apparently bailed out shortly before the crash, but officials reported no sign of a second crewman presumed to have been on board. Capt. Ken Clark of the Colorado CAP said the dead pilot's parachute emitted an emergency signal that led searchers to the site, about seven miles south of New Castle on the snow covered western slope of the Rockies. Officials had thought the signal came from the plane itself, a Navy A6 jet. The plane was about a half mile east of the body, but there was no immediate indication of whether the other crewman was in or near the burned wreckage. The Navy authorities identified the pilot as Lt. Cmdr. Robert Gene Tryon, a 22 year Navy veteran from Marysville, Kansas........Air Force helicopters and planes and ground teams from the CAP continued the search for the second crewman.. The Navy plane disappeared from radar screens Friday, and the crew of an AF C-130 from McClellan AFB.. picked up the emergency signal just before 2 am Saturday. The pilot's body was found about 9 am, and the plane about 2 hours later.

3/22 Another mystery whose clues were buried in the snow was the fate of a Navy crewman missing since his A6 Intruder went down last Friday night west of search for Jobst's plane (one of the civilian planes still missing.).......the body of the pilot was found Saturday about a half mile from the wreckage of the plane. The pilot had attempted to parachute to safety. Searchers found the body by following the signal of an emergency transmitter attached to the parachute harness.No signal came from the plane itself, a Navy A6 jet. The plane was about a half mile east of the body, but there was no immediate indication of whether the other crewman was in or near the burned wreckage. The Navy authorities identified the pilot as Lt. Cmdr. Robert Gene Tryon, a 22 year Navy veteran from Marysville, Kansas........Air Force helicopters and planes and ground teams from the CAP continued the search for the second crewman.. The Navy plane disappeared from radar screens Friday, and the crew of an AF C-130 from McClellan AFB.. picked up the emergency signal just before 2 am Saturday. The pilot's body was found about 9 am, and the plane about 2 hours later.<BR>-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 41


>From DUKEAIR@aol.com Fri Oct 22 17:49:17 EDT 1999

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 17:49:47 EDT

Subject: A-6

Found following info in Loveland Herald, 3/20/79

On the Western slope, Civil Air Patrol planes and Army helicopters searched  unsuccessfully for a crewman still missing from the crash of a Navy plane in the mountains southwest of Glenwood Springs. Late Monday night, the CAP  reported that no trace had been found of aviation mechanic John Lubresky of  Pennsylvania.

The pilot of the Navy A-6 Intruder was killed when the jet crashed Friday  night (16 Mar. '79) in a rugged area near Baldy Creek southwest of Glenwood  Springs.

The plane was being ferried from Norfolk, Va., to Alemeda, Calif. It had stopped at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs for several days and resumed the flight Friday evening, shortly before disappearing from radar screens.


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