AT 10.54 GMT, ON THE MORNING OF JUNE 1ST 1943, BOAC FLIGHT 777 (A CIVILIAN PASSENGER PLANE)

WAS EN-ROUTE FROM LISBON TO ENGLAND WHEN IT REPORTED BEING FOLLOWED AND ATTACKED BY ENEMY AIRCRAFT.

MOMENTS LATER THE PLANE CRASHED INTO THE BAY OF BISCAY, KILLING ALL 4 CREW AND 13 PASSENGERS.

THE GRIEF & OUTRAGE THAT FOLLOWED. WAS INTENSIFIED BECAUSE ONE OF THE 13 was LESLIE HOWARD.

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THE OFFICIAL STORY WAS THAT THE GERMAN ATTACK SQUADRON was ON A ROUTINE SEARCH FOR ENEMY AIRCRAFT,

FLEW ACROSS The path of FLIGHT 777, AND ATTACKED, NOT REALISING IT WAS ACTUALLY A CIVILIAN  FLIGHT.

FEW ACCEPTED THIS EXPLANATION AND OVER THE NINE DECADES MANY THEORIES GREW AROUND THE INCIDENT.

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WAS LESLIE HOWARD’S MANAGER MISTAKEN FOR BRITISH PM WINSTON CHURCHILL?

WAS HOWARD’s RECENT CULTURAL TOUR OF IBERIA INNOCENT  OR HAD HE BEEN SENT TO SPY?

COULD THE TARGET IN FACT HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE OTHER 16 PASSENGERs THAT DAY?

THEN THERE’S THE THEORY THAT BRITISH INTEL KNEW of THE IMPENDING ATTACK HOURS BEFORE IT HAPPENED

BUT DID NOTHING TO PREVENT IT, CHOOSING TO SACRIFICE THE 17 AND AVOID EXPOSING the FACT

THAT THEY HAD CRACKED THE ENIGMA CODE USED IN ALL GERMAN COMMUNICATIONS.

IS IT MERE COINCIDENCE THAT SO MANY OF THE  FLIGHT 777 files REMAIN CLASSIFIED AS “SECRET”?

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DIRECTOR THOMAS HAMILTON & DEREK PARTRIDGE (WHOSE SEAT WAS TAKEN BY LESLIE HOWARD)

UNRAVEL THe ONGOING MYSTERY, SPEAKING WITH EXPERTS, SURVIVING FAMILY MEMBERS

AND TO THOSE WHOSE LIVES, EVEN AT A DISTANCE, WERE IMPACTED BY THE TRAGEDY.