Hunziker RichardOverton

American highly-decorated World War II fighter pilot and later United States Air Force major general. He played a significant role in the Cold War and commanded operations at Project Crested Ice, recovering four nuclear weapons lost during a 1968 B-52 crash in Greenland, and attempting to remediate the surrounding area. General Hunziker retired on 1 September 1969 at the former Norton Air Force Base, San Bernardino County, California. On 29 May 1971, Hunziker was flying his Cessna 182, with his wife Margaret as passenger, from Calexico to Santa Barbara, when the small plane crashed on Tapa Mountain, near Hines Peak in the Topatopa Mountains. Both Richard and Margaret were killed. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less