Thanks for posting this Randy. This is very interesting. She describes what she would do in a ditching, and how she considered it dangerous.
Also I had been looking to see what she called the airplane, a "ship" or a "plane" in relation to what Dana Randolf heard. "Ship is on a reef south of equator" . It appears from reading this, she either called it a "plane" or "airplane" so maybe the "ship" was the Norwich City