Can’t have this thread disappearing like Amelia... bump...
It’s interesting reading about the facts and the hypothesis, it seems to me at least that it is factual that there is an aircraft where Dave says. The fact it’s been buried is alarming. However if an army unit found a plane then there must be a plane.
Now the hypothesis, like any accident investigation it’s aligning the Swiss cheese with facts and reliable assumptions. To me in the words of the myth busters it seems very plausible that the aircraft the army found could just be it. Again what is lost in finding an old aircraft wreck?
With unreliable radio nav, cloud cover possible blocking the stars, did it come down to DR? Temporarily unsure of position so put a contingency in place? It’s never a good feeling and I’m sure most of us have been in a similar position in the early days.
So I say again, I support Dave’s cause, even if it’s just to find a lost aircraft and possibly lay some aviators to rest.