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Old 4th Dec 2019, 00:02
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Did anything ever arise out of a letter to Justice Mahon on page 232 of Paul Holmes book? In it a passenger who claimed to be on the "first flight to Antarctica" had descended through cloud to a low altitude "When we did come out of the cloud, at about 9000 feet there was this huge mountain just off the right wing-tip". The writer had some "unspliced film" of this trip. I suspect they were mistaken in one or two areas (was it the first flight or perhaps first flight of a year, was it left or right wing-tip, how did they measure altitude etc) but was this account ever fact-checked?
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