February’s Speaker Program is a stunner!
Retired Navy Captain Mike Montgomery was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for “heroism in aerial flight on Dec 5th, 1971.” But that doesn’t begin to tell the story of his historic ditching of a P-3 Orion sub-hunter in Subic Bay. It was the first successful ditching of that aircraft, and it’s still talked about today.
Capt. Montgomery’s dramatic and electrifying tale puts you in that airplane with his crew as they struggle to overcome a cascading series of engine failures and systems malfunctions, leading – very quickly – to …. well, you’re just going to have to be there and hear it for yourself.
Come, hear and see what it’s like to make Navy history, with photos of actual damage
Captain Montgomery is a long time resident of Edmonds, where he has operated a disaster planning consulting firm for many years. He is also a frequent contractor for FEMA, in disaster recovery operations all over the country.