Navigating solely by radar, Captain Barry steered the plane back toward land and ordered the crew to bail out. One of the copilots, Captain Theodore Schreier, mistakenly put on a life jacket over his parachute. He was never seen again.
I'm sure the family of Captain Schreier does not appreciate my instinctive and immediate laughter, but it is the laughter of someone who knows that they would make the same mistake.
