I’ve read quite a bit into this incident, I find it interesting.
The ATSB (or whatever they were called at the time) refused to ever release the ATC recordings, is this normal?
He did report rough running of his engine, if he lost engine power I imagine his AH was ran off the engine vac pump, not the best thing to lose at night.
I’ve seen quite a few displays of shooting starts on clear nights, sometimes I would swear it was a light about to come through my windscreen.
i would love for this mystery to be resolved, I imagine after 40 years in the shallow ocean there would be bugger all left of a light aircraft, maybe just an old rusted engine block.