Hello TONY!
Saturday August 02 1997, TONY PATON writes to JACKSON HARDING:
 JH>> It's a true story, although obviously a lot of the fine detail was
 JH>> dramatised. The pilot of the NZ aircraft Boeing won that years award
 JH>> for outstanding airmanship.
 TP>  Do you know any of the fine facts?
I've read another couple of articles about it, but the facts are pretty much 
as portrayed in the film.  The two ag trucks set out from the US to be 
delivered to Australia and his mate crashed at Pago Pago on take off.  
Actually why his ADF and mag compass played up I think was far more 
complicated than protrayed, but on the whole the film was close to the 
magazine articles I read.  This was nearly 20 years ago (that I read them) so 
I'm afraid I can't give you much more than that.
Bye for now,
          Jackson
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