Lt. Col. Richard Olszewski, 1st Lt. John Gibson,1st Lt. William W. Ward, & Maj. Thomas Goetz from the Civil Air Patrol pose in between the Search Plane and the Communications Plane

  
A close up view of the Civil Air Patrol Crew who assisted RUCOOL in recovering the glider.

In preparation of rescue above water, the pilots wear water preserve suits. The weather being over 65 degrees, the pilots only wore the suits to their waists.

Using CODAR and making trajectory maps, the RUCOOL team gave the Civil Air Patrol coordinates for a search box. After surveying the box 7 times, the Civil Air Patrol was able to spot the glider in the water along the coast of Long Island. The glider appeared intact after drifting with the ocean currents for 10 days with no communications to RUCOOL.

After successfully spotting the glider, the Civil Air Patrol informed RUCOOL. RUCOOL was very grateful for their services, and invited them to the COOLroom at Rutgers University. Both Lt. Col. Richard Olszewski and 1st Lt. William W. Ward stopped by. The other pilots had to return their plane to Maine.

The glider was lost during the week of LaTTE. Lead PI, Bob Chant shows the Lieutenants the area where the glider was traveling, and where RUCOOL lost communications to it.