Trying to Find a Place to Land

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Trying to Find a Place to Land

Transcript

While we were away, the weather conditions had worsened substantially and there literally wasn't an open flyable aerodrome in all of Great Britain. And so that had its problems. Because there's no sort of landing system or even not a not a good navigation system. And, but I was really pretty sure myself where I knew where we were and we thought we'd stooge around for awhile because they knew on the ground that we were in difficulties. And they had large searchlights forming a dome over the air plane, over the aerodrome hoping that we'd either at least see the glow of the lights and hopefully we might be able to find our way down. So we stooged around for quite a long time and getting down as low as we dared, and at one point, as we were flying along I looked out onto the (inaudible) nose where I was sitting and I was watching for any break we could get. And I don't know how high we were, maybe a hundred feet, you know pretty well down and the only way, as I said earlier, the only way you could talk say to the navigator the pilot is, is to use the intercom, the electrical intercom. So I, at this point I, I saw below me beaches with white sand and little waves coming in.

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Mr. Reynolds describes how the weather had severely deteriorated while they were away from base, such that when the time came to land, they couldn't find the base, or anywhere, to set the Boston down. They finally spot landed.

Keith Reynolds

Mr. Reynolds was in the Air Force and served in Europe. He flew in a Boston and crashed in the North Sea in late November. He was rescued by some local fishermen and although he had broken his back he returned to flying six months later.

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