Does it all come down to secrets and lies? Is that the main reason the M-130 Hawaii Clipper was hijacked? Javier Pena, Lead Investigator, talks about what may have been the early seeds of World War II. Peña’s early work for the DEA came as the international cocaine trade had begun to explode. In 1988,…
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Weekly Clipper Clip #16: An Expert’s Opinion
Dr. Vernon Grose, aviation expert and former NTSB member, tells his opinion simply and directly on what happened to The Lost Clipper. Per Wikipedia, Vernon Leslie Grose (born June 27, 1928) is an American author, professor, aerospace engineer, air disaster analyst, risk management expert, and former member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). In…
Weekly Clipper Clip #15: The Parallels of Two Downed Planes
Javier Pena, Lead Investigator who helped take down Pablo Escobar, draws parallels between the bombing of Avianca Airline Flight 203 in 1989 and the loss of The Hawaii Clipper 50 years earlier in 1938.
Project RECOVER: A Quest to Locate and Repatriate Lost American Servicemen
In the same expression of hope and determination, the BentProp Project and Project RECOVER have interweaving common goals as The Search for the Lost Clipper to ultimately locate and help repatriate missing World War II Airmen. Project RECOVER is a public-private partnership to enlist 21st century science and technology combined with in-depth archival and…
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
As the oil still seeps from the sunken hulk of the Battleship USS Arizona, also too does our thoughts and remembrances still linger of the day it was sunk – December 7th, 1941. For me, I take this moment to not only reflect on the sacrifices of the honorable men and women during World War II, and all…
Weekly Clipper Clip #14: The End of A Bygone Era
Investigator Stephen Murphy talks about the end of an innocent bygone era of early airlines giving way to skyjacking and criminal intent commonplace today.
…and then there is this…
As the bold headline in the Sunday Albuquerque Journal News Paper (Feb 5, 1939) shouts “Air Circles Baffled by Disappearance of Hawaii Clipper,” so goes our investigation. In a reverse of how we normally give information to our readers – we have decided to post the Page 7 article to better give the taste of…
Traces Found of Lost Clipper
Thanks Jamie for your message and I too must keep an open mind as I have been at this for over 16 years and am susceptible to target fixation (tunnel vision). Proof to another possible ending for the clipper may be found in the news papers from September 1938. In one article from the Reno…
Weekly Clipper Clip #13: An Adventure of a Lifetime
Mr. Bill Stinnett, our lead investigator onsite in Micronesia, is full of anticipation about The Lost Clipper, a story of a lifetime.
Weekly Clipper Clip #12: We’re In It 100%
Mr Javier Pena talks of the extreme importance of research when it comes to the investigation of Pablo Escobar and The Lost Clipper.
Choy’s China Clipper Restaurant
Never give up hope! I have to remind myself those words from time to time. I recently had the pleasure of visiting Journal Square in Jersey City, New Jersey a few weeks ago and time sure has had its impact on the location that hosted Wah Sun Choy’s China Clipper Restaurant (lower left corner under…
Weekly Clipper Clip #10 with A Former DEA Officier
Javier Pena returns this week from his Netflix hit show “Narcos” to talk about The Lost Clipper as the first hijacking in aviation history and how it opened the door to modern day terrorism.
The Lost Clipper - The mission to bring 15 forgotten Americans home 