Diving in to Solve a Pittsburgh Mystery

On January 31, 1956, a Mitchell B-25 bomber, on a flight from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada to Olmstead Air Force Base in Harrisburg, crashed in the Monongahela River (locally known as the "Mon"), just outside of Pittsburgh. Four of the crew members survived, two drowned. What became of the plane, however, has become one of Pittsburgh's enduring mysteries. The Coast Guard searched the river for two weeks following the crash and turned up absolutely nothing. Since then, the B-25 Recovery Group has made several attempts to locate the remains of the plane. Still nothing. Theories about the plane's disappearance have been fanciful, to say the least.

This weekend, the B-25 Bomber Recovery Group heads out once again to search the Mon. With divers and today's sophisticated equipment they are confident that they will be able to recover something related to the plane and solve the 52-year mystery of the Pittsburgh B-25 Bomber.