Jay Larry Haddock was 38 when he boarded a Grumman G-73 Mallard amphibious aircraft, registration N2965, in Anchorage on September 30, 1974. The plane, white with red trim, was bound for Kodiak on what was described as a seabird survey and carried Haddock with three other men named Robert R. Johnson, Robert Bergman, and Leonard Boughton.

The Mallard failed to reach Kodiak and was reported overdue. Extensive search-and-rescue operations covered remote coastline, islands, mountainous terrain and open ocean, but no confirmed trace of the aircraft or any of the four men was found. No distress call was known to have been transmitted, no wreckage or debris was recovered, and there were no onboard flight recorders available for examination.

The Alaska State Troopers are listed as the investigating agency and the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System records the case as MP81045.

If anyone has memories of the flight, the aircraft N2965, or the search operations in late September 1974, please share information that might still help clarify what happened.