The previous day in Canada, according to an Associated Press report, a plane doing aerial survey work for the Canadian government had taken off from an airfield near Lake Manitoba. The plane carried a pilot, a photographer, and a surveyor. The weather was good. Several witnesses reported that the plane climbed to about two thousand feet in a normal manner, but then, as it emerged from a cloudbank and as onlookers watched in bewildered horror, the three occupants left the craft one after another and plunged to their deaths. What
