The wreckage of a private jet that disappeared in Lake Champlain in 1971 has been discovered 53 years later through underwater drone research.
Organized by Garry Kozak, the efforts led to the discovery of the N400CP private jet, which vanished 200 meters deep in Vermont’s Lake Champlain, carrying five people. The autonomous underwater drone, while scanning the lakebed, captured real-time images and videos of the broken fuselage, engine debris, and wing fragments. These high-resolution visuals provided a clear picture of the jet’s final resting place, solving a decades-old mystery.
Kozak described the discovery: “The underwater drone encountered a broken aircraft fuselage on the lakebed, with engine parts and a shattered wing structure nearby. We also captured images of cable bundles and part of the instrument panel from the cockpit section.”
The N400CP jet took off from Burlington on the evening of January 27, 1971, and shortly thereafter, it crashed into Lake Champlain. Following the incident, control tower officials reported that the aircraft had descended rapidly and disappeared from radar after the crash.
Garry Kozak, who had previously used similar equipment to locate the wreckage of the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 in the Indian Ocean in 2014, has now illuminated the longstanding mystery of the Champlain Lake disappearance with this latest discovery.
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