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I don't know. Stories of things we simply don't know the answer to.

Well, hi there and welcome to another episode of Thinking sideways. I'm your host,

Joe. Join this week as always by Devon and Steve. And of course, as usual, we're going to talk about

another really awesome mystery. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And this is I sort of poaching on Steve's territory

here. We're going to talk about a crashed airplane. That's usually what Steve does. He's a

airplane mystery. But you take boats. I take airplanes. You do this. All right. The field is open.

Next week, sinking a ship. Yeah. He's going to cover a submarine mystery. Wait, you're going to

think a ship. Okay. I didn't say that. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. This is our mystery. What's

sick that aircraft carrier next week? Well, okay. Back to our mystery here. Our plane that crashed

was a World War II vintage C-47 Dakota airplane. The Dakota was actually known as also the Sky Train.

Which is an awesome name. I love Sky Train. Sky Train. Sky Train. Okay. Sorry. Sorry. I lost it.

I'll where was I? Okay. So, but then the US government gave about 2,000 of these things to

the British and also the Commonwealth countries during World War II. One of the land lease program.

And for some reason, those planes, which as far as I know were the same, got renamed the Dakota,

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