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In Reply to: Trivia question of the day --- Fact or Crap posted by tubesforever on July 11, 2006 at 22:16:32:

I have heard different.... the plane didn't ditch in the water but was found. From what I recall, the plane running black market stuff and so not to sully his name it was romanced up as a story. There was a military policeman talking about it a while ago on a documentary, he was "apparently" with the party that went to recover it.
But I recall something about a snow storm at the time so maybe ice made the plane go down.
Either way, I am sure we will never really find out.
K

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Interesting story that is also crap. Although it brings up.... - tubesforever 06:24:30 07/12/06 (2)
The fact that people hear a story and then try to "what if it to death." Then the stories over a few pints of ale sound fun and get spread out to others.
Hint:
Fact I. Glenn Millers plane did not file a flight path.
Fact II. Exactly how many flight routes across the channel were "open" or off limits?
- just a thought - damage k 08:17:58 07/12/06 (0)
  Fact I. Glenn Millers plane did not file a flight path.
  Just a thought. We have no Glenn, no wreckage and no flightpath. So adhering to the principle of Ockham's razor maybe it never happened.
  Fact II. Exactly how many flight routes across the channel were "open" or off limits?
  Who would know this? Not really a fact either way. Also Radar was not all it was cracked up to be. Low level passage still got across the channel relatively undetected.
  There was also a war on so many rules were flexed in the name of commerce, legit or black market. That is a fact.
  The general accepted thing is he boarded a transport plane for Paris. What was it transporting....
  K
- Will we ever know if it is crap..... probably not - damage k 07:37:17 07/12/06 (0)
  But I also suppose that there are no answers.... with no wreckage (apparently) there is no crash site. So we will also never know the supoposed 'route' that the plane was flying. So there are no real facts to go on either. Unless they are buried in all the secrecy rubbish that the war threw up. There were lots of dodgy things going on at that time.
  The amount of propaganda that all side spun during the war was remarkable, so probably just keeps the war weary public satisfied.
  I think it holds about as much water as all the other stories, maybe more so.
  Personally, I don't give a monkeys.
  K

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