Sorry for the overnight, but got home and wife had to go on line to spend some money. Oh, well!
The plane went down approximately 10 miles off shore, but close to where I live in Southampton. The plane wreckage was brought to the Shinnecock CG Station which is 5 miles from my home, and the plane reassembled at the old Grumman facility in Calverton approximately 20 miles away. At the time I was working as an Assistant District Attorney and had some contact with PD and others who were involved in recovery, etc.
One of the detectives that was assigned to my unit had a day off and was coming back from Montauk Point with an out of town relative who was visiting and both of them saw what they believed to be (based on military experience) a missile streak in the air. The FBI didn't seem interested, according to him.
This case still stinks to my mind, and I don't buy the "theory" of a Navy sub- especially after the incident with the Israeli plane in Africa.
Anybody up?