Leaving Copenhagen at noon on a one-hour flight southwest to Hamburg, U.S.A.F. Captain James Palmer Lundy, 42, a pilot with twelve years' flying experience, set a course of 220°, and then handed the controls of his lumbering old C-47 to his copilot. Some time in the next quarter-hour, the plane somehow veered 60° east off course. First to notice anything amiss was pretty, freckle-faced Barbara McCash. With her husband, Flight Surgeon Captain Paul McCash, 25, of Atlanta, she was on the way back to their duty post at Wheelus Field in Libya...
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