[lit-ideas] Re: Saint Exupery


On Apr 28, 2008, at 7:53 PM, Robert Paul wrote:


I think Lawrence has given the argument to the best hypothesis.
I find the suggestion that Saint Exupery was inattentive a plausible explanation. Accounts of air warfare make clear that a moment's inattention was enough to get a pilot killed. But what do you (plural) make of this, from Wikipedia's piece on Saint Exupery?
Rippert's story is unverifiable, and has met with criticism from some German and French investigators.[16][17] It remains unclear why the fragments that were recovered of Saint Exupéry's P-38 showed no traces of combat. 


Low flying plane, avoiding attack, ploughs into the sea?

David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon

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