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Your own reading for the past ten years will tell you of a number of unexplained disappearances and accidents to planes. The Constellation over Brazil. The DC-3 in Lake Michigan, apparently torn a part and its blankets, etc., shredded mysteriously. On August 2, 1947, the British South American Airways plane, Lancastrian Star Dust, mysteriously vanished on a flight over the Andes. It would not have been so surprising if the craft had disappeared in the high peaks of the Andes, but — she was due to land at the airport at Santiago, Chile, at 5:45 PM, she sent out a signal stating her time of arrival. That is just four minutes from the airport, almost within sight of the control tower. At the end of the message came a word "Stendec," loud and clear and given out very fast. The Chilean Air Force operator, at Santiago, queried the word which he did not understand. He heard it twice repeated by the plane. No explanation of the word has ever been found. Nothing further was heard from the plane although calls were sent out. The plane never arrived, and from that day to this the mystery has never been solved. Searchers were made by ski troops and planes and by skilled mountaineers and automobiles over an area of 250 square miles, in vain. That plane carried a crew of five men and there were six passengers. The pilot, Captain R. J. Cook, had crossed the Andes eight times as second pilot. Four minutes from the landing strip — what happened? STENDIC "GAELIC" FOR "Stranger to World Was Cook raised around "Gaelic" folks when a child? Where heard he of "The Stendics." Cook was talking TO NEAR BY & CLOSING-IN L-M SHIP "STEN-BECK" SAID FEARFULLY & SAID VERY RAPIDLY BECOMES "STENDIC" Meant "STAND-OFF" "You bloody Stendicer" or Stendisher or even Standisher is an occaisional (sic) oath of Scots border. (italic by A) It is used only to imply the very worst sort of Mysterious-Doing person. Ychym IL"Stendic"? Ne Bdi Hoanni fahn bi skoa kaii tog ymi, ok? Yes, could have been an L-M aboard & he said “"Standback" VERY FAST. In 1947, an American Superfortress bomber strangely vanished when 100 miles off Bermuda — the area of Missing planes. In March, 1950, a U.S. Globemaster disappeared while flying from North America to Ireland, without warning, without trace. The Pan-American Airways liner, a Constellation with forty people aboard, was on her way from South Africa to New York, on June 20, 1951. The ship left Accra, West Africa, for Monrovia, Liberia, and at 3:00 AM the crew radioed that she was due at Roberts Field airport, Monrovia, at 3:15 AM. This plane was never seen nor heard of again. Fifteen minutes out, with no trouble to report, and anticipating an eventless landing, this giant craft disappeared — without a trace of a record, no outcry from its radio. | submit that these disappearances are in greater number than those of the past — disappearances of people, etc. — because our air age is proving of great interest to our space neighbors. Also, we are infinitely more aware of such disappearances. (The same reasoning, of course, applies to the increase of UFO's sighted since the advent of the air age and use of radar.) 118 & in Some parts of England. MEN "FROZEN — HELPLESS" are good Prey.