James Hugh Wilson, 48, was a passenger on TAG Airlines Flight 730 when the De Havilland Dove crashed into frozen Lake Erie on January 28, 1970. The aircraft departed Cleveland at about 7:38 a.m. bound for Detroit; its radar beacon vanished eleven minutes after takeoff and the wreckage sank in roughly 80 feet of water. The crash destroyed the plane. Two crew members and five passengers were recovered and identified, but James Wilson and one other passenger were not found and were presumed to have died.

Decades later a Canadian detective connected a John Doe who washed ashore at Point Pelee two months after the crash to Wilson based on physical description and dental records. Those remains were exhumed for DNA testing in hopes of confirming the identification and giving Wilson’s wife and five children closure. Does anyone have information about the recovery, identification, or the exhumation and testing that followed?