Brian, I would agree with R20. The last person on the ground to speak with either Gibson or Jim Warwick was a SNCO from 627 Sqn at Woodhall Spa (the unit the aircraft came from) who was giving Jim a brief on the Navigator's duties on that mark of Mosquito, one of which was fuel management controlled by cocks behind Gibson's seat (Gibson had flown the Mosquito, but had not done an OCU course on it and Warwick had never flown in the aircraft at all). The SNCO hadn't completed the brief before Gibson turned up and said 'we are going now'. As R20 has stated a Dutch eyewitness saw the aircraft crash and reported that the engines had stopped and there was a light in the cockpit while it was still in flight.
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