 The 106th Rescue Wing has assisted the state in battling the 1995 "Sunrise Wildfires" in the Hamptons, they were first on the scene after the crash of TWA Flight 800, and the recovery of the wreckage from the plane flown by John F. Kennedy, Jr., which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 1999.The squadron located the transponder of the wreckage of the plane underwater.In 1998, the wing carried out the longest over-water rescue mission in an HH-60, saved one soul, made famous by the book