Learjet Mystery (2)

In the words of the civil aviation expert:

It was one of the weirdest accidents in fifty years of commercial flight.

Initial findings suggested that the cabin had failed to pressurise (on take-off!). It was this that probably rendered virtually everyone on board unconscious. The plane had run out of fuel after aimlessly circling the skies (for three hours!).

The discovery of the remains of the French born pilot, washed up on the shore, several miles down the beach, had at least put paid to one of the more bizarre theories about the crash; the pilot had been seen parachuting out of the plane, leaving it to its fate.

It remained unclear what had happened at the end. An air sea rescue operator, who was ordered to shadow the plane during its final minutes in the air, saw an unidentified man grappling with the controls. In all this a rumour persisted that tickled Telling’s throat. Could this have been one of those foo flyers? Though, personally, he was of the opinion that it was most likely the punctured latex doll that was found with the wreckage some thirty feet below the sea…