Recalls his escape from Captured Cambodia 1975

 Luann at White Rose Productions 630-291-8750  lpg@whiteroseproductions123.com

April 17, 1975, Cambodia.   Few Westerners were in country at the time of the events that led up to the holocaust that gave way to the killing fields of Cambodia and the loss of more than 1.7 million lives.  Former CIA/Air America  Capt. Neil Hansen was onethat witnessed some of the horrors firsthand and only barely escaped by stealing a plane and flying in the blind to Bangkok.  

Air America pilot Capt. Neil Hansen began his aviation career ominously enough as a pilot for the disappeared Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa.  He later spent more than a decade in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War era as a captain for the CIA's airline that operated there during the Vietnam era and the 'Secret War' in Laos.  Post-Air America, his adrenaline addiction took him to a flying job in Cambodia.  He could not have known at the time that his lust for excitement would nearly cost him his life.  He escaped Cambodia mere hours before the murderous Khmer Rouge marched into the city and closed the airspace. 

https://www.historynet.com/last-plane-cambodia.htm

http://inspire.eaa.org/2018/10/23/eaas-the-green-dot-air-america-pilot-neil-hansen/