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Old 1st Jan 2018, 20:24
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Conso, Lady be Good certainly but it was a navigational error. The radio compass, a GCE IIRC, could give an ambiguous direction as it did not have a sense aerial. The navigator expected the beacon to be ahead when they had already passed it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Be_Good_(aircraft)
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