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I spent the first day in London reviewing the R.A.F. records from the Stornoway Base. It was obvious that no distress calls had been received from the Jack Ketchum crew. That seemed odd, in view of the fact that the Ketchum crew had a full time radio-operator aboard and the airplane had been out of control for some time before crashing. Radio failure might have been one of those “anomalies” in the crash sequence that day, I reasoned.

The R.A.F. weather report at the time indicated very low clouds and drizzle; similar to the censored U.S. military report we had been given. From the routine nature of the British report though, it was obvious the Royal Air Force had no idea the Jack Ketchum crew was losing its battle for life only twenty-five miles away.