FAA Fairey Albacore "T9916" found 1970

[kaki3152]

Found my old "Air Combat" Magazines from the late 60s early 70s,which I hadn't seen for many years.

While going through them, I found this snippet from Air Combat Volume three Number 4 1970:

"In India,workers cutting through a Kerala State Forest came across
a Fairey Albacore, serial number T9916. The plane still carried Fleet Air Arm markings and is believed to have crashlanded sometime in 1942 during the Japanese advance. The pilot's skeleton was found in the cockpit"

I looked at Fairey Albacore serialnumbers and unfortunately, T9916 is not a correct serial number. There is a serial run starting with the letter T
but it ends at T9260. Possibly the second number is incorrect.

"100 Fairey Albacore I ordered under contract no. B35944/39
Serial Numbers: T9131- T9260, built at Hayes. "