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Three Broken Watches, Forty-Five Dead: The Night I-LAKE Hit Somma
Three Broken Watches, Forty-Five Dead: The Night I-LAKE Hit Somma
Averaging three stopped wristwatches gave investigators the official time of death for all forty-five victims - but those three clocks disagreed with each other. A perfectly functioning Vickers Viscount struck the northern face of Mount Somma with engines running and experienced pilots aboard; how did terrain arrive before anyone expected it?
In this episode, we present the sequence of events, crew background, passenger identities, aircraft details and the weather information received before impact, and ask how a routine…
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