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Shattered Souls

Thinking Sideways: Craig D. Button

Shattered Souls

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

4.34.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

On April 2, 1997 USAF Captain Craig Button broke formation during a training mission and flew his A-10 Thunderbolt II NE for almost 800 miles before crashing into the side of Gold Dust Peak. The four 500lb Mk-82 bombs that were on the plane when it took off were not found at the crash site. Did Captain Button commit suicide and where are the bombs?

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0:00.0

Thinking Sideways is not brought to you by the Manganese Transport of the Association of America.

0:05.2

Instead, it's supported by the generous contributions of people like you, our listeners, on Patreon.

0:11.1

Visit patreon.com slash thinking sideways to learn more.

0:14.7

Thinking Sideways

0:19.4

I don't understand.

0:21.4

I've not got food.

0:23.4

You never know.

0:25.4

Keep the picture paper for me to just smile.

0:27.8

What?

0:29.1

Stories of things we simply don't know the answer to.

0:34.7

Hey there, and welcome again to another episode of Thinking Sideways.

0:38.9

I am Steve, of course, as always, joined by...

0:42.2

Devon...

0:43.0

And Joe.

0:44.0

And once again, we have a mystery.

0:47.4

Once again, we have a listener suggested mystery.

0:50.3

And it's an aeronautical mystery.

0:52.0

It is.

0:53.7

And yes, I know there's probably somebody out there going,

0:56.4

oh god, Steve's doing another plane mystery.

0:59.1

But hang with us because I actually sort of managed to find a story

1:03.4

that combines my last two episodes.

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