Originally Posted by
John Nichol
Thanks for this TL - I constructed the narrative from details in a couple of other books which both had the same description of who was where, and various archived news reports from the time. I did try to get the Board of Inquiry via a FOI request but it wasn't available. Broadhurst is described as the co in all these documents.
Yes. I believe there was a deliberate policy to conceal the fact that one of the dead was in fact the co pilot. Contemporary reports describe him as a navigator which led to even more I’ll feeling amongst his friends and family.