Shark attack, 1941-06-01 (Sea Disaster)
Location: Between Esmeraldas & Salinas, Off coast of Ecuador, PACIFIC OCEAN
Time: 17h30
Activity: Ditched aircraft, 3 men in the water. Swam for 31 hours
Victim: Colonel B. & Sub-Lieutenant D. (M, age )
Injury: 1 man survived & was rescued, sharks took the corpses of the two men that perished
Fatal: Y
Source: G.A. Llano in Airmen Against the Sea, pp.67-68; V.M. Coppleson (1962), p.257; A. Sharpe, pp.43-44; SAF Case #740