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Nevertheless Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij voor Nederland en Koloniën (Royal Dutch Airlines) last week blamed the crash of its famed Douglas Airliner Uiver (Stork) in the Syrian Desert six weeks ago on lightning (TIME, Dec. 31). According to KLM's experts who examined the wreckage, Uiver hit the ground at full flying speed, switches on, throttles open, stabilizer set for cruising, landing gear retracted. The gasoline fire which consumed most of the plane destroyed most of the evidence. But tools and other metal parts untouched by the flames showed marks of extreme local heat and partial melting...