Fred Valentich

[Chu Mai Huang]

Having personally heard the B.B. "mayday" tx tape the day after it happened, you could clearly hear the engine running sweetly in the backgound. That combined with THE most bogus calm rehearsed mayday call ever. All verified by the fact that PLOD called off the search virtually straight away and issued an APB for the aircraft, likely parked on a remote airstrip somewhere.

As for Freddie in his C182L, well, "Beam me up Scottie, there's no intelligent life down here." A local guy photographing the sunset captured a couple of images of something rising from the sea and there were other sightings along the coast that night. 6 minutes of comms from Freddie until 7:12:28PM, then... ooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh