Talk:Craig D. Button

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I started this Wikipedia entry simply because no one else has yet. I was always fascinated by this case. I once had a copy of the official USAF accident investigation report. But now, I can't find it on my hard drive. It contained lots of useful info, and I'll try to get another copy. The online version has long disappeared from the USAF website.

The missing information I'd most like to have: his birthday, place of birth, call sign, place of burial, and, of course, a nice high-res copyright-free photo. All photos of him on the internet are from 1997, and back then, most providers (such as CNN) only published tiny GIFs. Polihale (talk) 22:36, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

There are a few good Public Domain photos at http://www.af.mil/news/airman/1097/crash.htm 99.233.188.80 (talk) 05:53, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

"would have been the first time Captain Button dropped live ordnance"?
This claim is simply not credible. Captain Button had been in the US Air Force for 5 or 6 years at this point, much of that time as a pilot in a combat squadron. Might have been the first time he was dropping live ordnance at Goldwater Range, but by that point in his career he would have had plenty of "live fire" training under his belt. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.127.152.206 (talk) 10:55, 24 February 2011 (UTC)


 * This was reported in the The New Work Times, as cited in this page. According to the page here, Button was a Air Force pilot for five years, four as a T-37 first assignment instructor pilot teaching novices to fly and then one year as an A-10 pilot at the 355th Fighter Wing. -73.97.165.37 (talk) 18:02, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

A-10 wreckage actually found by an Army National Guard OH-58.
The A-10 that crashed in the Colorado Rockies was actually first spotted by the crew of an Army National Guard OH-58 helicopter. The search was staged out of an Army National Guard facility in Eagle County. Yet, for some reason, the Army National Guard receives no recognition for the exhaustive search or the recovery operation conducted in extremely difficult terrain. 169.143.0.103 (talk) 18:31, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Possible alternative cause
A letter to the editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology raised the issue that the cause of the crash may have been intoxication from aircraft fuel. According to this writer this is a suspected risk in aircraft such as the A-10 where the midair refueling receptacle is directly in front of the cockpit, and that pilots of such aircraft often elect to wear their oxygen masks [during] midair refueling to avoid the possibility of intoxication. This writer maintained that Craig Button left formation right after a midair refueling. So, a conclusion can be made that this is a real possibility, and it would be interesting to know if the USAF had considered this possibility. If the pertinent issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology can be found it might be worth including in the article. talk) 05:46, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Unsourced and defamatory content
Recent changes have included both unsourced and defamatory content. Please have very good, reliable sources and discuss such changes here on the talk page before adding them again. Also don't edit war to remove unsourced content .JoeSperrazza (talk) 21:46, 13 April 2015 (UTC)