Desert Rescue: An Expedition to the Sahara

On 26 May 1952, a BOAC airliner crash-landed in the Sahara, 1,300 miles off-course. Fifty years after the crash, 'Meet the Ancestors' returned to the site of the accident with a UK expedition, in an attempt to locate the remains of the wreckage. Chart the story of the doomed arliner and last year's rescue mission.

The BOAC airliner	The damaged plane	The survivors	The search for help
Saharan oasis	The co-pilot's grave	Rob Watt, expedition leader	The plane's remains

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