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1. TV show tried to explain STENDEC

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2024, 08:58 PM

Mar 2024

A television show on the disaster and the expedition to find the wreckage said STENDEC could be morse code shorthand used in the RAF for "Severe Turbulence Encountered Now Descending Expect Crash." Obviously, there would be little time to send such a message so they would use an abbreviation. I don't recall which show. It may have been NOVA.

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On this day, August 2, 1947, a British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashed. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2023 OP

TV show tried to explain STENDEC ModerateUnderground Mar 2024 #1