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Article: 'You just broke the mold with him'; The Bemidji native's body was found two weeks after his plane went missing in Afghanistan.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- October 28, 2009
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Byline: MARK BRUNSWICK; STAFF WRITER
There was no word for six days when Randy Bergquist's plane went missing in the isolated mountains of Afghanistan. But those who knew him said that if his plane was operable, Berquist would get it out of there. Bergquist, a Minnesota native and former drug interdiction officer for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, was just that kind of pilot.
"Everybody knew that if that plane was flyable, he was walking out of the mountains," said his wife, Pam. "Careful. Common sense. So resourceful."
But Bergquist's body was among three found in the wreckage of an Army reconnaissance plane that crashed two weeks ago in ...