1960's Crash of B-25 in Guatemala (Mod edit)

[ikeda]

I am looking for any information on the death of my friend, Clyde Benton Hughes aka Pat. He crashed in September 1960 in his TB-25N near Flores Guatemala. He was involved in the Cuba situation and the circumstances of his death have never been adequately explained. The B-25 was serial number 44-86800, registered in Jan 1960 as N9091Z. I have already conducted a pretty extensive investigation, including FOIA, and most of the information on the www sites has come from me. Anyone who might have information, I would greatly appreciate you contacting me.

[Matt Gunsch]

Please change your subject line and read this sticky

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... hp?t=10563

Please put DATE in title

thank you

Steve

[gary1954]

Ouch

[Tulio]

Guys, "Ikeda" is a nice guy who lives in the Conroe, TX area, and he is a former Mohawk driver.

He is trying to find out more info regarding this gentleman's death, because the gent's daughter is seriously ill, and would like to know what happened to her dad, who perished when she was just 4 years of age.

These are two of the shots that Ikeda has allowed me to publish at LAAHS:






Thank you for your help, and Saludos!


Tulio

[tom d. friedman]

cool tail art on the 25. is that a cabin waco in the background???

[ikeda]

Yes, that is a WACO 1935 YKC-S, also owned by Pat. It was abandoned in Tapachula Mex when Pat was killed. I rode in that machine with Pat, my mom and brother in early 1960. The tail art is because Pat was from Louisiana. State bird is the Pelican. I have all the paperwork on both AC.

[bipe215]

Saw on another website that you had received info to the effect that he had crashed in a different B-25. Did anything develop from that?

Steve G

[ikeda]

If you are refering to the tail number 71606, I think that was a mistake. There was never a B-25 with that tail number. I think who ever found the wreckage reported it wrong, due to damage resulting from the crash. If you rip the piece of metal bearing the tail number from the structure in a crash and then look at it upside down you can get 71606 from 9091Z! But there could be some paperwork out there that uses that wrong number.
Thanks for the interest,
KM

[CyberSily@aol.com]

I just came across this and was surprised. Pat Hughes was my uncle and I was doing a little research on the family.
From one of the post it talked about his daughter being ill. I lost trsck of Roxy years ago and would like to know about her. Please feel free to email me at CyberSily@aol.com. I will supply any information. I realize this post was 4 yrs ago, but I would love to find out more.. I love the photo of Uncle Pat.. didn't have that one, but have lots of others. Please put Uncle Pat in your comment line so I won't delete it as junk mail.

[gary1954]

I just came across this and was surprised. Pat Hughes was my uncle and I was doing a little research on the family.
From one of the post it talked about his daughter being ill. I lost trsck of Roxy years ago and would like to know about her. Please feel free to email me at CyberSily@aol.com. I will supply any information. I realize this post was 4 yrs ago, but I would love to find out more.. I love the photo of Uncle Pat.. didn't have that one, but have lots of others. Please put Uncle Pat in your comment line so I won't delete it as junk mail.

I just spoke to Kevin and made him aware of your post