Ben Charles Padilla was a 50 year old from Pensacola, Florida. He was a licensed aircraft mechanic, flight engineer, and a pilot of small airplanes.

He was on a job in Luanda Angola overseeing the refurbishing of a 727.

On the evening of May 25, 2003, with a job almost completely done, an assistant and he went out to the plane to test its engines.

Minutes later the 727 rolled down the runway and took off. Neither the plane nor the men

have ever been seen again.

I'm Ed Denzel and this is unfound. Oh, Ever since I was a little kid I've been fascinated by mysteries and disappearances.

I as a kid watched in search of with Leonard Nemo

it also helped that at that time I was slowly becoming a Star Trek fan. I continue to be a Star Trek fan to this day.

But I can remember on Saturdays, I think the show used to be on Saturday afternoons for some reason

that in search of was on and I think now

by this time being 46 years old I think I've seen every episode.

And then later I think maybe when I got into my teenage years, my early 20s, I began to become fascinated

and what I guess you would say morbidly fascinated with plane crashes. Maybe it helps that I don't like to fly that much.

But I've become a walking encyclopedia

for plane crashes.

You tell me about a plane crash, I can probably tell you what caused it.

The airline, maybe even the year, the location,

just because I've watched every May Day episode that's out there.

I've read every Wikipedia article.

I've also watched aircraft investigation. I guess there's that show what 60 seconds the disaster whatever that show is

that sometimes covers playing crashes I've seen them all and so I couldn't pass up the opportunity to do a show regarding the

disappearance of a person and then possibly the crashing of an airplane. the circumstances in which a family has lost a family member in this case

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