Records of other plane crashes, and particularly the accompanying SAR missions in the mountains of the north east Arabian peninsula.
                a) Gulf Aviation DC3, VT-DGS 10.07.60, Bahrain - Doha - Sharjah. Leased from Kalinga Airways, and also lost without trace. Was overdue at Sharjah in a sand storm. Believed to have over flown its destination due to tail winds and hit high ground or lost over the Persian Gulf. (29) (It is the loss of this aircraft -also classified secret- that may have already led to the secret discovery of "Hannibal" and its contents (6))
                b) Sterling Airways Flight NB296 Caravelle, OY-STL. 14.03.72, Colombo - Dubai. Hit a mountain near Fujairah. Believed to have descended too early on night approach to Dubai during a thunderstorm.(46) 
   Large scale aerial photography of the region. 1940 to present. Assuming the aircraft has still not been located this is likely to have been done by authorities before now. Particularly since the advent of highly detailed satellite imagery. Satellite photo of route 1 / 2 (7),(33) (‘Google Earth’ offers some insights to the topography.)
  What were Imperial Airways maintenance procedures generally like?
  An in depth study of the flight times and radio logs. There are a number of inconsistencies in the reported times, within the official record and two other sequences available for study.
  Study of British and Allied policy in the region and the far east. (How they altered and when). East of Suez policies of the late1960's. 
   It has been suggested that geographic locations were deliberately transposed to mislead. What evidence is there in this case?

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