?»?Robert Wishart Turbyne was born 1916 in Waterville, Maine. He loved flying and was already a small biplane pilot before he left to be trained at Gunter Air Force Base, Montgomery Alabama. He became a 1st lieutenant in the US ARMY AirCorps in 1941. He went on went on to become navigator and pilot DC3s for Panamerican Grace or PANAGRA. This airline replaced Lufthansa planes withdrawn to support the German war effort from being sole providers of north south transportation on the Pacific coast of South America. It was in this age before radar that his plane became engulfed in adiabatic clouds while traversing the Andes in January, 1943. The plane wing tip touched mountainside and flung the 23 person flight against the side of the Andes some 350 miles from Lima, Peru. I spoke to a colleague of my father, then Capt LLoyd Domning of Pan American, who stated that it took rescuers 7 days to reach the crash site. He stated that my father had survived the crash, but died of a head injury and pneumonia and that he had been holding my father's head as he died. There were another six persons who died before the rescuers arrived. I make this contribution in his honor as a snapshot of what early aviation was like.