Must have happened after Ernest Gann wrote Fate is the Hunter. Sounds like one he'd claim.
An old bomber pilot I was flying with remarked, "he certainly seems to have had More than his believable share of troubles... more than a couple of pilots...." when I was raving about the book.
I guess you had time to think when you were WAAAY out in the Pacific.
Yes the good old "crash comics"
I still have a wad of 'em and you CAN read and learn from THEM
I loved the one about the Super Connie landing into Nairobe (I think... mislaid that copyin the early seventies... it had a purple cover).
Crew felt a small lurch about ten miles out on the localizer at night.
Engineer called the pilots over when they alighted and showed them ALL the dirt stuck in the undercarriage.
The next day investigators went out to the ten mile point and found the hill top ploughed up in two or three furrows.
The hilltop was lousy with bloody great boulders poking out.
The aircraft had missed many by an awfull small amount. The investigators reckoned it was the only path through the rocks they could have gone and not knocked something off the aircraft.