New video shows underwater crash site of long-lost jet

Underwater video from an independent researcher shows the mangled wreckage of a long-lost corporate jet that crashed into Lake Champlain more than five decades ago. Before sharing the video with NBC5 News, Gary Lefebvre of Colchester first showed it to relatives of the crash victims in a private, virtual discussion to help them better understand what happened to their loved ones.The jet crashed into the frigid lake in January 1971, shortly after takeoff from the Burlington International Airport. The five men on board, Donald Myers, George Nikita, Frank Wilder, Robert Ransom Williams III and Richard Kirby Windsor, have long been presumed dead following their ill-fated business trip to Burlington. However, the location of the crash site and the wreckage of the plane remained a mystery that went unsolved for well over a half-century.As NBC5 News reported in May, a team of underwater search and recovery experts announced they found the …