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Benedict Arnold

WWII Plane down...

I believe this is from WWII.  A plane went down in the Libyan dessert and apparently went undiscovered for a long while.   I'd like to Google this incident. Does any member know the name of the plane?   This incident was also a Twilight zone episode.

Posted - April 4, 2017
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  • I think they're was a similar movie.. Whether it was bars on a real incident though... And I'm sure many planes went down in Libya during the war
      April 4, 2017 4:02 PM MDT
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  • 6126
    Are you talking about The Flight of the Phoenix?  

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_of_the_Phoenix
      April 4, 2017 4:19 PM MDT
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  • 6126
    No.  I realized what you were talking about with the Twilight Zone, after I posted the above.  This is the episode and the story it was based upon
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Nine_Will_Not_Return


     This post was edited by Harry at April 4, 2017 5:36 PM MDT
      April 4, 2017 4:22 PM MDT
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  • The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1965 American drama film and was based on the 1964 novel The Flight of the Phoenix by Elleston Trevor.
    The plane used in the film was a Fairchild C-82A and was renamed The Phoenix after it was repaired.
      April 4, 2017 4:26 PM MDT
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  • Yes, though the plane had a name. Lady something if I recall...
      April 4, 2017 4:42 PM MDT
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  • 6126
    It's in the second link of my response.  "Lady Be Good."
      April 4, 2017 4:59 PM MDT
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  • Ah!
      April 4, 2017 5:05 PM MDT
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  • I could be on the wrong track but 40-odd years ago Desmond Bagley wrote a novel called Flyaway about the search for a lost plane in, I think, the Sahara. It was fiction but I wondered if perhaps the stories had become entangled?
      April 4, 2017 6:02 PM MDT
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  • He amy have taken his premise from Lady Be Good.
      April 4, 2017 6:45 PM MDT
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  • Yep, he could have done.
      April 4, 2017 7:06 PM MDT
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