That Piasecki H-21 with Belgian crew that disappeared with all on board in Congo 1965

…will now be recovered…

Most links are in Dutch only unfortunately…

http://baha.be/Webpages/Navigator/News/news_2010_4.html

——-Between November 21st and December 19th, 2010, Belgian Defence in collaboration with the Congolese Army, is setting up an expedition to search for the wreck of the Piasecki H-21 Workhorse FG- 378 helicopter which crashed with its Belgian crew in North Eastern Congo in 1964.
The helicopter disappeared mysteriously near Stanleyville (now Kisangani) in a time of growing unrest. The (Belgian) crew composed of pilots Adj Robert Jacobs and Adj Frans Allaeys and technician Raymond Bardon is still reported as missing. The military base at Koksijde is still called “Basis Adjudant Vlieger Frans Allaeys” to honour one of the crew members—-

http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=DMF20101027_052

http://www.paracommando.com/news.php?extend.2187

http://bahamilitary.fotopic.net/p39233658.html

Force Aérienne Congolaise Piasecki H-21 FG378 went missing in Congo on 27 June 1965 during a humanitarian mission on a flight between Buta and Stanleyville.
On board were Adj. R. Jacobs, Kpt. R. Bordon and Adj. Frans Allaeys detached from the Belgian Air Force.
Only recently the wreckage of the ill fated helicopter was discovered in the jungle. During a ceremony on 27 September 1990 Koksijde airbase was officially named “Basis Adjudant Vlieger Frans Allaeys”. Artwork by Fernand Van de Plas

Exhaustive background story in Belgian newspaper “De Standaard” in 2009:
http://vokkoksijde.tripod.com/allaeys/allaeys_1.pdf

http://vokkoksijde.tripod.com/allaeys/allaeys_2.pdf

http://vokkoksijde.tripod.com/allaeys/allaeys_3.pdf