Dan Futrell

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Born|  (1983-06-12) June 12, 1983 (age 42)
Education| Gonzaga University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Occupation| CEO, Pat Tillman Foundation

Dan Futrell is a non-profit leader and a U.S. Army veteran. He is the chief executive officer of the Pat Tillman Foundation, a nonprofit that supports education for veterans and military spouses co-founded by Marie Tillman after the 2004 death of NFL player Pat Tillman.[1] Futrell also helped locate and recover the missing black boxes of Eastern Airlines Flight 980.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Early life and education
* 2 Eastern Air Lines Flight 980
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Early life and education[edit]

After leaving the army in 2010, Futrell attended John F. Kennedy School of Government, at which he earned his Master of Public Policy.[3] as a Tillman Scholar[4]

## Eastern Air Lines Flight 980[edit]

On June 4, 2016, after one of the warmest years on record in the area, human remains and a piece of wreckage labelled "CKPT VO RCDR" were recovered by a team of five in the Andes mountains. Dan Futrell and Isaac Stoner of Operation Thonapa recovered six large orange metal segments and several damaged pieces of magnetic tape.[5][6][7]

On January 4, 2017, Futrell and Stoner — who had been inspired to undertake the search by reading of Flight 980 in the Wikipedia article "List of unrecovered flight recorders"[8] — met with NTSB investigator Bill English[9] to officially hand off the recovered components, following the approval in December 2016 of the Bolivian General Directorate of Civil Aviation for the NTSB to proceed with the analysis attempt. This effort was reported by Outside_(magazine)|Outside Magazine, who sent a journalist with the pair to Bolivia in 2016.[10]

## References[edit]

1. ↑ "Pat Tillman Foundation". April 24, 2004. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
2. ↑ "Unearthing the 32-Year Mystery of Crashed Eastern Airlines Flight 980". December 15, 2016. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
3. ↑ "School Committee Candidate Profiles". October 4, 2017. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
4. ↑ "Tillman Military Scholars Participate in "Pat's Run" Charity Event". April 17, 2012. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
5. ↑ Herndon, Aston W. (2016-06-05). "Two Massachusetts men say they have found long-lost 'black boxes' in Bolivia — The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
6. ↑ Futrell, Dan (4 June 2016). "31 years later, we found the flight recorders". Operation Thonapa.
7. ↑ Frick-Wright, Peter (18 October 2016). "What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980?". Outside Online.
8. ↑ Bates, Claire (22 February 2017). "The housemates who found a lost plane wreck". BBC World Service. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
9. ↑ Cook, Jeffrey; Luna, Nathan (2017-01-05). "Long-Lost Black Box From Crashed 1985 Flight Headed to NTSB". ABC News. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
10. ↑ Frick-Wright, Peter (18 October 2016). "What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980?". Outside Online.

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