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FINAL FLIGHT

a blog by Peter Stekel

FINAL FLIGHT is the story of four aviators lost in Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks on November 18, 1942

FINAL FLIGHT: coming in late 2009 from Wilderness Press

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I've been hiking and mountaineering in Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks ever since I first came to the Sierra in 1965 as a 12 year-old boy scout. More than any other place I've lived, I've always considered the Parks to be my home. Everything I studied in college at UC Davis while working on my BA in botany and at Humboldt State University while working on a masters in ecology was to better understand the Sierra. Discovering the cause of the Beech 18 AT-7 airplane crash in 1942 is part of that process.

After literally stumbling across the body of Glenn Munn in 2007 I became deeply involved in trying to understand what caused the airplane crash of the Beech 18 AT-7 that killed him and three others in November, 1942. The four men lost on that date were not movers and shakers or shapers of history - they were regular folks, just like the rest of us. We are the people who fight the wars, make the sacrifices, to return home and resume lives broken or disjointed by conflict. I feel it is fitting that their story be told.
 
 

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