Vista airman laid to rest 73 years after Alaska crash

Vista airman laid to rest 73 years after Alaska crash

Air Force Capt. Jerome Goebel, a Vista native killed in a 1952 military plane crash in Alaska, was laid to rest at Miramar National Cemetery more than 73 years later. His burial marks a milestone in a decades-long effort to recover and identify all 52 service members who perished that day. Goebel was 33 when the C-124 Globemaster crashed into Mount Gannett in November 1952, triggering an avalanche that buried the plane under hundreds of feet of …