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Penultimate Amazing
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At an air race in 1972, I was filming an Grumman F8F Bearcat on fire, descending towards the ground at a high rate of speed, when someone standing nearby said "There's a parachute!"... I looked up from the camera viewfinder and... there was no parachute.
The pilot rode the thing into the ground and died.
Even eyewitnesses can see things they hope to see.
Reporting on conversations then, is equally liable to embellishment by the reporter who may conflate "airplanes crash due to bombs/whatever"... the airplane crashed, so there was a whatever as logical, when such was not part of the conversation, as a deliberate crash would be far from anything would have expected at that time.
The pilot rode the thing into the ground and died.
Even eyewitnesses can see things they hope to see.
Reporting on conversations then, is equally liable to embellishment by the reporter who may conflate "airplanes crash due to bombs/whatever"... the airplane crashed, so there was a whatever as logical, when such was not part of the conversation, as a deliberate crash would be far from anything would have expected at that time.