BOEING BOMBER, BARBARA JANE

The local folk now hear a plane, quite low and circling round. In thickening fog and driving rain, can it not see the ground? It surely has wandered off course. For where was this plane bound? Maybe landmarks it’s looking for but hidden in the grey. Then engine roar suddenly heard. Now seems it’s on its way and is returning to true course. But then with some dismay there comes an ominous silence, followed by amber glow up there on a nearby hilltop. It is then that folk know the reason for sudden silence. No further will it go. Some locals go to the rescue, heading for amber light, expecting carnage all around from people on the flight. With speed they must find the remains for soon it will be night. Then searching through the burning wreck they find the crew alive. The plane’s structure is torn apart but all on board survive. Seems it had flown into thick fog with just a crew of five. On the top of a Pennine hill there crashed a bomber plane. Lost in the mist it had no chance in this hilly terrain. The plane had left permitted course and the crew were to blame. (USAAF Boeing B17G, crashed in Pennines in 1945. All five crew survived. Bomber Plane, Barbara Jane.)