The man was drunk as a skunk and probably had no idea what he was doing when he took the airplane off.”....
Might want to read the accident report....drunks normally arouse suspicion when they overtly engage with multiple other sncos in the act of nicking a military transport aircraft. In this instance, all the eyewitnesses, many of whom inadvertently assisted his escapade, said he didn't appear drunk, on the contrary, he was behaving rationally and plausibly. It's all there if you read it.
By what means would Meyer have been able to hold an hour long phone call to his wife from the C-130, in 1969?
Just curious!
Again...read the report...it's covered...twice!
What I take from this is nothing in the way of conspiracy...it is the staggering ineptitude of an organisation that allows someone who is transparently falling apart at the seams to:
a. Work on aircraft.
b. Nick one.
jeez...Fred Karno would have been proud of this circus.
Incidentally, if anybody is wondering why this incident is not well known, you might want to consider that the US had other things on its mind back then. Like this incident happened five days after the US started bombing the cr@p out of Cambodia.