US tries to locate remains of pilot of plane that crashed in Thailand 77 years


BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): The acting US ambassador to Thailand on Thursday (March 3) witnessed an ongoing operation to locate a US military plane that crashed in Lampang province 77 years ago to try to find its missing pilot.

Charge d'Affaires Michael Heath, the acting US ambassador, visited Ban Mae Kua village in Tambon Mae Kua in the Sobprap district of Lampang where a team of nine specialists from the US Defence POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) are working with local residents to dig a suspected crash site.

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