Edgar Lee McCrary was 54 when he boarded a Cessna N1211V out of the Caribou Creek, King Mountain area near Palmer, Alaska, in August 1989. On August 12 the aircraft departed with McCrary and three other men — James Slaybaugh, Robert Horn, and Richard Floyd — and became overdue. Immediate search and rescue efforts found no trace in the vast Alaskan backcountry.

A year later, on August 16, 1990, wreckage of the Cessna was located in a ravine about one mile southwest of Hicks Lake, confirming the plane had crashed. Despite recovery of the wreckage, none of the four men were ever found. The whereabouts of Edgar McCrary and his companions remain unresolved.

Did anyone in the area at the time see or hear anything related to that flight or know details about the men’s last preparations?