A whole flight of Navy planes once and then the rescue plane that went out after them!

Despite searches by rescue planes and boats, not a trace was ever found of Håkansson or his plane.

In Swains Island, a rescue plane dropped food and supplies.

"It was a rescue plane," she cried, barely holding back her emotions.

Several calls to nearby seaplane bases yielded no information as to where Gates' rescue plane had landed.

It was Sorrow, of course, that the rescue planes saw.

The rescue plane was late, but he survived.

Captain Nelson makes the hard decision to call off the rescue planes, and hike out on foot.

All of them clambered up into the rescue plane.

She'd seen him look like this only once, after a rescue plane went down over Kosovo, killing five agents and seven civilians.