Lost Flight [SEP] distributor
and crew was filmed on Kauai.
Reception.
Destined for mainly television broadcast in 1969 on NBC, "Lost Flight" was re-broadcast in dubbed versions in Brazil, France and West Germany. Despite the limited theatrical release of "Lost Flight" in Australia in 1970, the 1971 New York release, bundled with then current "One More Train to Rob" (1971) triggered a review in "The New York Times" by Roger Greenspun, who noted that the similarities to other "lost" genre
E-Systems (now L-3 Mission Integration) in 1957 to convert ten C-130A aircraft for SIGINT duties under the ‘Sun Valley’ project. These C-130s replaced the RB-50Es which in turn were modified as RB-50Gs and transferred to the Pacific.
One of these C-130's (56-0528)) was shot down with the loss of a crew of seventeen (six 7406th flight crew members and eleven USAFSS recon flyers) over Soviet Armenia on 2 Sep 1958, becoming the first C-130 lost to hostile fire. Four Soviet MiG-17