OH OH - James Hugh Wilson, 48, Cleveland, 28 Jan 1970

[Gardener1850]

Missing Person / NamUs #MP62284
James Hugh Wilson

Male, White / Caucasian
Height 6' 0" - 6' 1" (72 - 73 Inches)
Weight 180 - 220 lbs

Hair Color: Gray or Partially Gray
Eye Color: Blue

Circumstances
Date of Last ContactJanuary 28, 1970
NamUs Case CreatedDecember 5, 2019
Last Known Location Map
Location Cleveland, Ohio 44030
Ashtabula County

Circumstances of Disappearance
The missing person was a passenger on TAG Airlines Flight 730 which departed the Cleveland, Ohio Burke Lakefront Airport at approximately 07:38 hours e.s.t. on 1/28/1970. The airplane was in route to Detroit City Airport with two crew members and seven passengers on board. The aircraft's beacon target disappeared from the Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center's radar at 07:49. It was later determined the aircraft had crashed into Lake Erie. The aircraft was destroyed and potions of it sank in 80 feet of water. The bodies of five passengers and two crew members were recovered and identified. The remaining two passengers are missing and presumed dead.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[glamourkitty1922]

NTSB report--https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/AAR7105.aspx
This site has a UPI article on the crash Cleveland, OH Plane Plunges Into Lake Erie, Jan 1970 | GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods
And a NY Times article 9 Lost in Lake Erie Crash
Here is a report on recovering 7 of the bodies written in 2004 RECOVERY OF CRASHED TAG AIRLINER FROM LAKE ERIE
There seems to be very little about James on the internet. In one article, his family is asking if there have been any unidentified bodies found in Lake Erie since 1970. They are trying to find him and bring him home.

 

[mlhenn]

James Hugh Wilson – The Charley Project

Casefile added Aug 2021


Details of Disappearance
Wilson was last seen in Cleveland, Ohio on January 28, 1970. He was a passenger on TAG Airlines Flight 730, which departed the Burke Lakefront Airport at 7:38 a.m., en route to the Detroit City Airport, with two crew members and seven passengers (including Wilson) aboard.

The plane disappeared from radar at 7:49; it was later determined to have crashed into Lake Erie. The plane was destroyed in the crash and parts of it sunk in eighty feet of water. The bodies of the crew and five of the seven passengers were recovered, but Wilson's body and one other passenger's have never been found.

Information and photos for the other missing passenger are unavailable. Both of them are presumed drowned.

 

[Karjinx]

James Hugh Wilson – The Charley Project
The missing man, James Hugh Wilson was buried as an unidentified, John Doe in Leamington, Ontario, Canada, for 51 years.
He was missing after an airplane crash, into Lake Erie, in January 28/ 1970, TAG Airlines Flight 730.
His body was exhumed and identified through DNA. There are a few articles where he is referred to as Point Pelee John Doe as this is where his unidentified remains washed up on shore March 29/1970.
Point Pelee National Park is located in Southwestern Ontario near Leamington, Ontario, Canada.


Who is John Doe? A Southwestern Ontario graveyard mystery

Below is a link to where he was interred.
James Hugh Wilson (1921-1970) - Find a Grave...