 ALL
AT SEA WITH A STRANGE COINCIDENCE
I read
an advertisement in a Fleet Air Arm newsletter asking
if any WW2 pilots had a map reference for any Swordfish
aircraft that had crashed intact. The writer was
looking for additional parts to assemble a complete
aircraft for a new museum.
I will
never forget when my friend's aircraft crashed in
1943 during training manoeuvres off the Firth of
Tay on the coast of Scotland. A frenzied scramble
had resulted in us getting into the wrong aircraft.
My radio was down when the fateful accident occurred
and everyone at base had thought it was me who had
been killed. The event played on my mind for years
afterwards.
I went
up into the attic and searched for my old logbook
to see if I could find the information requested.
I discovered that the crash had happened exactly
50 years ago to the day. Not only that but it was
the same day (a Monday) and date. The logbook said
that the incident happened at exactly 10 o'clock.
I looked at my watch. It was exactly 10 o'clock
Don J
P
 Strange
coincidences happen rather more often than they
'ought' to. There may be cosmic causes operating
of which we know nothing, whose results we cannot
really understand, merely observe.
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No:13.3.95PN4/3 (Copyright)
Define:
Synchronicity
An attempt to explain an apparent relationship between
two or more events which have no obvious link. The
term was put forward by psychologist Carl Jung (1875-1961)
who believed that the positioning of heavenly bodies
couldn't have a 'causal' connection with the lives
of people on Earth but still felt that the evidence
for this astrology was still strong enough for an
alternative explanation.
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