Fifty years ago, Capt. Anthony J. Synodinos, the mission pilot, & 1st Lt. Edward G. Conrad, the mission observer, were on a search & rescue mission on April 6, 1954 that stretched from Long Island, N.Y. to Langley Field, Va. for a missing T-33 military jet that was never found. They had been in the air for about an hour, searching the Upper Bay in heavy fog, when their open-cockpit Ryan PT-22 airplane crashed into the water at 1:05pm.
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