Posts by Fred

Quick update. We continue to prepare for our next trip to Venezuela to conduct investigative interviews, fly simulation routes and try out our geotagging camera capabilities. We currently have raised $2900 against our target of $6700 for the trip estimates and will continue with our fund raiser until we have sufficient funds to return without […]

As you know, we have been working on the search for Bob and Neiba Norton and their passengers, Gladys Zerpa, Flora Mujica and her daughter Juli andPaulina Neri and her infant son Eddi for more than 2 ½ years now. Our team of volunteers has collectively spent thousands of hours on the physical search, the […]

The search for Bob Norton and the others who went missing in the jungles of Venezuela on Feb 16, 2009 continues on (see www.findingbobnorton.org for details). We are now conducting our fundraiser for the next trip to Venezuela scheduled for Oct 28 – Nov 5. The purpose of this trip is to take an investigator […]

Back in June, some of the Norton Search team members attended the National Association for Search & Rescue (NASAR) annual conference in Sparks, NV. We presented the Norton Search effort there. Additional assistance came in the form of Tim Evinger, an experienced investigator joining the effort. Following the NASAR presentation we traveled to Yosemite in […]

Click on the link below to view a 6 minute long YouTube clip about the search for Bob Norton and the passengers on his plane. They went missing in the jungles of Venezuela on Feb 16, 2009 while on an emergency medical flight. Independent film producer Tim de la Torre put together this […]

Several of the volunteer Norton Search Team members here in the U.S. have been burning the midnight oil working on the design and development of a search drone and also with the search investigation work. Our team continues to grow, with additional engineers, scientists, pilots, search technicians, weather specialists and machinists, all bringing their expertise […]

Greetings,
We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to each of you who have taken an interest in finding Bob & Neiba Norton and their airplane which disappeared from our lives two years ago. We have felt overwhelmed with the impossibility of ever finding the crash site in the dense jungle, and helpless to do anything […]

TWO-YEARS SINCE NORTONS DISAPPEARED: Memories
The Norton and the Gates family go back a long way. Our parents were friends while we were still young. In 1980, after graduating from college I landed at Keene, TX for the General Conference session in Dallas, and Bob’s dad’s plane was on the ramp ready for the […]

Two years have now passed since Bob & Neiba Norton and the 5 others on the plane went missing on February 16, 2009. Not a day goes by without me missing my good friend. The search effort continues and is strong as new ideas and approaches have come into focus. Now with […]

As most of you know Bob and Neiba Norton, along with five passengers, disappeared February 16, 2009, while on an emergency medical flight over the jungles of Venezuela. For the past two years, search efforts have taken family members, friends and search teams on an intense and challenging journey. At times the […]