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Hellewell, Sheridan, and the rest of the party flew the scheduled aerial survey mission on June 15, 1958. During the flight, Hellewell flew over the crashed B-24, giving everyone a much closer look at the wreck.
Aside from being broken in half, the Liberator appeared to be intact, and the survey crew began to believe that at least some of the American airmen survived the crash. Plus, skid-marks were visible, which indicated that the B-24 crash-landed relatively softly.
On the following day, another Silver City Airways employee made a second report of the crashed B-24 to the authorities. This time, it was First Officer Honey reporting the the wreck to the Royal Air Force (RAF). He too, was rebuffed, being told that the desert was splattered with lost airplanes (which was true of British aircraft, but not so much of American bombers- specifically since this wreck was very far from most of the American large-scale bombing areas). The RAF refused to even note the crashed Liberator's position.
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