From reading the Eddie Connellan story, it appeared that he always did the recruiting of pilots and engineers. No one was ever employed on the spot, interviews would take place in your home town and the process would take a period of time. Did this guy slip through the net, or had they changed the way they recruited staff in 1977.
I know an engineer that worked for Eddie, and he said that Eddie arrived unannounced at his home one day and interviewed him for an engineering position and then a few months later arrived at his work place unannounced and just had a chat, then left and rang him late on a Friday night with a job offer.
Spare a thought, for the engineer and apprentice who were working on one of the DC-3's, and looked up and saw the Baron fly past and into the hangar.