Jerry L. Thigpen, The Praetorian STARShip: The Untold Story of the Combat Talon (Air University Press, 2001) p62, p101 John Gargus, Combat Talons in Vietnam: Recovering a Covert Special Ops Crew (Texas A&M University Press, 2017) For nearly 25 years, the fate of the crew of Blackbird 65-0547 would be unconfirmed until the discovery, in November 1992, of their remains and the wreckage of their MC-130 plane in dense jungle on the side of a mountain in Lai Chau province, 32 miles northeast of Dien Bien Phu.