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By the afternoon of May 17, 1958, Hellewell was roughly 7,000 feet above ground level (AGL), and he was droning along, approximately one hundred, fifty miles north of the Kufra rock formations that had been studied previously. This was an especially barren, flat area.
Suddenly, someone in the cockpit (for all of the crew were on the flight deck) asked: "What's that down on the left?" History doesn't record who asked the question.
With fuel running low, Hellewell didn't want to descend for a closer look. Instead, he initiated a shallow turn over the object in the sand, which everyone recognized as an American World War Two bomber.
Hellewell and MacLean immediately identified the wrecked aircraft as a B-24 Liberator.
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