BBC1 tonight, Thursday 26/06/08 at 21.00 “Britain’s Lost World” includes reporter Dan Snow investigating a World War Two plane crash on St. Kilda.

Roger Smith.

I chanced upon the programme, and the feature on the Sunderland struck a chord with me – it was said that the crew were on their last training flight prior to transit to Africa: my father was doing the same at that time with his new crew, and he then flew ML859 out to Bathurst (new and shiny, apparently).

To his great regret, he had to hand it over to a French crew on arrival, and was given a rather more tired Mk III instead!