The Mysterious Disappearance of an A-10 Warthog - What Happened to Captain Button?

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Captain Craig Button was a United States Air Force pilot who disappeared while flying what should have been a routine training mission out of Davis–Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. Multiple attempts to establish radio contact with his Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II failed as it flew hundreds of miles off course. Radar was able to track his inexplicable flight into the Colorado Rockies before he vanished. It would be three weeks before his aircraft was found, and its 2,000 pounds of live bombs are still missing to this day…

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