 He was a resident of Belmont, California, and had served four years in the United States Air Force.As soon as it was presumed that the missing aircraft's fuel supplies had been exhausted, investigators from the CAB initiated an investigation and began combing through maintenance and operations records of the plane and its equipment.When the wreckage had been located and had been recovered to the aircraft carrier, CAB investigators and pathologists of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology were flown to the carrier, which was still en route to Long Beach, to begin their investigation.