Both pilots had been decorated for their service as airmen during World War II, and both were regarded as valuable, respectable employees of Eastern Air Lines.
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Chiles bought the baseball team Texas Rangers in 1980 and served as chairman of the club until 1989 when he sold the team to group of investors that included the future President of the United States George W. Bush, as well as New York stockbroker Richard Gilder, who later happened to marry Chiles' niece.
Los Chiles was originally settled by fisherman and others who worked on the nearby Río San Juan in Nicaragua.