AIR AMERICA Seidl, Robert Lee

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  • SURNAME
Seidl
  • FORENAME
Robert Lee
  • UNIT
pilot
  • RANK
Civilian
  • NUMBER
  • DATE OF DEATH
12th March 1975
  • AGE
41
  • GRAVESITE
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 08.04.1933 Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
father Hilary J. Seidl (1909-1983)
mother Mae J. (nee Buyarski) Seidl (1909-1994)
wife Alice Mae (nee Wilson) Seidl (1934-2011)
sons Ricky & Robert, daughter Susan
1951 graduated East High School
1956 employed by Moore Business Forms, Inc
MIA when DC-4 crashed near Pleiku, South Vietnam
with E.V. Dolan, G.C. Miller
not on CAT/Air America Memorial
On March 12, 1975, a commercial Air Vietnam DC-4 (Flight 499) carrying six crew members and twenty passengers took off on a flight from Vientiane, Laos, to Saigon, Vietnam. During the flight, the aircraft's pilot sent a radio transmission to the tower at Pleiku Airport in Vietnam, requesting to make an emergency landing. The aircraft was not heard from following this transmission. The DC-4 crashed due to unknown circumstances near Pleiku, South Vietnam.

Three of its passengers were American civilians who remain unaccounted for following the incident.

Mr. Robert Seidl of Green Bay, WI was one of the 3 civilian passengers aboard the DC-4. His remains have never been recovered.
 
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