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According to the first reference, the aircraft was forced to land but the pilot made an excellent belly-landing.

The statement that "the crew were soon rescued" does not come within 100 miles of doing justice to the quite remarkable story of the rescue in the second reference. Wanderer57 ( talk) 19:59, 19 March 2008 (UTC) reply

It is very brief. Anyone can expand it. Snowman ( talk) 20:05, 19 March 2008 (UTC) reply

I changed crash landing to forced landing based on wording in the reference and on a discussion here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011_July_16

Wanderer57 ( talk) 21:38, 28 August 2011 (UTC) reply

The recovery is described briefly in "Hunting Warbirds", by Carl Hoffman. I'm too busy with another project to update this page, though. Noel (talk) 01:13, 24 June 2012 (UTC) The article has recently been upgraded, including more description of the recovery. Nolabob ( talk) 14:53, 24 February 2013 (UTC) reply