Good friends of mine from the UK spent a couple of weeks in the Bahamas and fired off this postcard of a Douglas DC-3 that didn’t quite make it all the way home.

History does not relate what happened to the crew or passengers, but the aircraft is not too badly damaged, and so we might hopefully assume that all turned out well for them, if not the aeroplane.

I do like the sentiment. Of course, with an aircraft as robust as a DC-3, short of breaking it up into little pieces, there are few DC-3s that can’t be salvaged and made to fly again. Or so the legend goes.

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