Originally Posted by
India Four Two
Extract from a post on the US 7th Fleet website - my bold:
Flight PX56 crashed approximately a quarter mile short of the runway
Fair point.
If there were military eyewitnesses who saw the aircraft enter the water, that would be strong evidence of an undershoot.
But the report doesn't mention that, only what the Seabees did in the aftermath.
They also got the flight number wrong, though that's by the by.