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A-10 crash twenty-years ago remains unsolved

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Twenty-years ago on Apr. 2, 1997, Capt. Craig D. Button was killed when his A-10 jet flew off course by 800 miles and crashed into Gold Dust Peak in Colorado. Till this day, the exact cause of the crash remains a mystery.

A-10s of the 355th Fighter Wing over Arizona
By USAF [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Summit Daily is running a two-part series on the mystery. The link to part one is below.

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