Pilot brings his father's remains home after Vietnam War

Thank you, my friend SP5 Mark Kuzinski for making us aware that Southwest Airlines pilot Capt. Bryan Knight was five years old in 1967 when he last saw his father, Col. Roy Knight who was an A-1E fighter pilot with the US Air Force, was shot down a few months later.

Southwest Captain Brings His Dad Home
"Southwest Airlines Captain Bryan Knight last saw his father, Col. Roy A Knight, at Dallas Love Field Airport when he was five years old. Col. Knight deployed to serve in the Vietnam War in 1967, where he was shot down and went missing in action. 52 years later, his body was identified. Captain Knight, also a USAF veteran, flew his father home to Dallas for the final time."
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"There was a search-and-rescue attempt, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, but Knight could not be found, and the search was called off because of intense hostile fire at the time. He was declared missing and officially presumed dead in 1974.
Earlier this year, human remains were discovered near the crash site. In June 2019, those remains were confirmed to be [Roy] Knight's."
"When the younger Knight learned that his father's remains had been found, he began the process of repatriating them. They were flown to Honolulu, where they were transferred to a Southwest flight heading to Oakland, California.
From there, Knight successfully coordinated his schedule with the airline to make sure that he could be the one to fly his father home. He was assigned as the pilot in charge of flight WN 1220, from Oakland to Love Field in Dallas.
An honor guard from the Air Force met the plane at Love Field along with Southwest crew members, who took a moment to pay their respects. The plane was also met with a water-cannon salute by the airport's fire department after it landed."

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