[Icare9]

Thanks Rod. As said, I'm out of my depth here, so with the absence of and conflicting evidence, it seems that the precise cause of loss will be hard to trace without further documents coming to light.

I wish I could have so much expertise devoted to HR732, then we might be able to find its crash site and some closure for the families and the pilots widow. The Ju88 that may have shot them down was only found in the late 1990's near Hamburg.