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Star Dust: 'STENDEC' - The Glacier That Swallowed Eleven Lives

Star Dust: 'STENDEC' - The Glacier That Swallowed Eleven Lives

A chill of dread: an aircraft vanished in 1947, its tyre resurfacing fifty-three years later, still inflated, while an unexplained final Morse word - STENDEC - echoed unanswered. What silent force buried wreckage for over half a century and why did the radio operator send that baffling message?

In this episode, we tell the facts surrounding the disappearance of a British South American Airways Lancastrian named Star Dust and the passengers and crew it carried, and we follow the timeline from departure to the last transmission to…

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