And it was there that 96 passengers and 11 crew members boarded a Flying Tiger Line Lockheed Super Constellation on March 14, 1962. Among them were Master Sgt. Robert R. Glassman of San Jose, ...

Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 went missing on March 16, 1962, with 93 U.S. Army soldiers on board. These men and their flight crew perished in what would become one of the biggest aviation ...

The Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation Military Air Transport Service (MATS) charter flight was operating under Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 (FTLF 739) and headed to Saigon when it disappeared.

Decades after Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 — carrying 93 soldiers in the US Army — disappeared over the Pacific, families are still seeking answers on what may have been a secret special-ops ...

On March 15, 1962, Capt. Gregory P. Thomas was flying a L-1049H Super Constellation for the Flying Tiger Line. The plane was chartered by the Military Air Transport Service to ferry his 96 ...

A sombre mood prevailed as a resolute group of elite US soldiers waited to board Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 on a secret mission in the early days of the Vietnam war. They would never reach ...

The Flying Tiger Line was the first all-cargo airline in the US, according to Flying Tigers Club. It also chartered flights for military personnel. vietnam war final moments the seventies_00005823.jpg ...

AVIATION: Flying a Tiger; AVIATION: Flying a Tiger. 3 minute read. TIME. September 11, 1950 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... Last week the Tiger Line thought that people were beginning to see things its way.

Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 departed on a secret mission sanctioned by President John F. Kennedy on Mar. 16, 1962, to fly to Vietnam. The flight went missing and after 61 years, ...