Richard Roy Yerex, 56, vanished on May 27, 1987, while piloting a Cessna 402 on a routine run from Palm Beach International to Marsh Harbor, Bahamas. A retired Ford Motor Company captain and Korean War veteran, Yerex lived in North Palm Beach and still flew commuter flights to and from the Bahamas. He departed at 8:05 a.m. bound to pick up tourists and was last heard near Grand Bahama Island reporting a sighting of a weather balloon.

Yerex never reached Marsh Harbor. The U.S. Coast Guard began searching 25 minutes after he failed to arrive; multi-day searches involving Coast Guard and Air Force aircraft turned up no sign of the aircraft, wreckage, or occupants. The plane reportedly carried no life rafts or preservers, and one theory is it sank with little or no surface trace. Yerex left eight children and no explanation for what happened has been found.

Did anyone in the Palm Beach or Bahamas flying community have contact with Yerex around that date or recall unusual weather or traffic that morning?