An HC-130P Hercules aircraft stands in the background with engines running as members of a recovery team walk along the flight line following their arrival at Gambela South Airport. The airport is the center of operations for forces that have arrived to recover the bodies of Texas Rep. George T. (Mickey) Leland and members of his delegation. A search was initiated after the plane transporting Leland and 15 other people was reported missing en route to a refugee camp near the Sudanese border. The efforts resulted in discovery of the downed aircraft on a remote mountainside
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Ethiopia (ETH)
Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Bill Thompson
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/08/1989
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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