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SAAF Buccaneer ditching 1965: what happened to the crew?

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Dr. John Smith
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SAAF Buccaneer ditching 1965: what happened to the crew?

Couple of other links that may be relevant/of interest

http://www.saairforce.co.za/the-airforce/history/saaf/attrition-summaries (but remember to manually select the year – 1965 – and scroll down the page as, by default, it will come up with 2013). Also, http://www.saairforce.co.za/the-airforce/history/saaf/attrition-summaries/17 lists ALL Buccaneer S.50s lost in SAAF service 1965-82

http://www.saairforce.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4924 (photo of SAAF 417 in Portugal on delivery flight)

http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/Aircraft_by_Type/Buccaneer.htm and http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/Country-By-Country/South_Africa.htm
– which states that the “brick” ended up in the drink “500 miles south of the Canary Islands”.

Is that correct? I always thought that the crash was much further south than that (i.e. off the coast of Angola – or at least in the southern hemisphere, somewhere south of the equator)