I can tell you the  events which led up to it crashing  as my brother watched   the   German plane  emerge out of the clouds at the same time as  the lightning  a short burst of fire and   the lightening  spiraled into the Bepton hill  he didnt mention a pilot  baling  out the Ly nch  crash was  totally different    WSCC records minute  book 

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