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However, Gene Nattress also flew frequently to Nicaragua, Guyana, Jamaica, and Belize delivering goods for the cargo’s owners. Often they would trade cargo— frozen chicken for frozen lobsters. This trip actually appeared to be one of these regular cargo runs and not some secret rendezvous out of a James Bond flick.
On this last trip Gene was accompanied by George Golas, who apparently owned a bush plane company in Central America and often came to Florida for plane parts. After he would drop off his cargo at Aruba, he planned to take Golas to Guyana. At the last minute a 17 year old boy, Ken Pekin, came along for fun.
The usual rumors of CIA involvement, hidden cargoes, faked death, it all gets around. But it is certain his very distinctive B-25 has not been reported elsewhere.
The truth in this case is mystery, not conspiracy. Gene Nattress and his B-25, George Golas and young Ken Pekin, completely disappeared in 1966. This is all that is truly certain. This incident has hitherto been given only a line in any book. But as most disappearance in the Bermuda Triangle, a single line is often only the tip of the iceberg. Some 50 years later, the chase for this mystery still goes on. It is yet another mystery and adventure in the Bermuda Triangle.
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