Lt. Col. Donald Downing was piloting an F-4C Phantom II aircraft during a night mission when his plane disappeared in a fireball.

Federal officials have identified the remains of a U.S. Air Force pilot from Wisconsin who went missing during the Vietnam War nearly 60 years ago.The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Tuesday that its scientists in December positively identified the remains of U.

A U.S. Air Force pilot from Columbus, Wisconsin, who was killed during the Vietnam War, is finally accounted for.

Downing’s name is recorded on the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the American Battle Monuments Commission’s Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu,