The story was based on a premonition by Captain Gerald Gladstone (later Admiral) who woke up while visiting Shanghai just after the War with the thought that Goddard, who he was to meet at a reception later that day, may have died in an air crash. The premonition was so great that he repeated this to his host at the reception, and was overheard by Goddard. There was a crash a few days later in Japan from which Goddard and everyone else on board survived. The only injury was fellow passenger Ogden who had a "broken head". Mrs Ogden blamed Gladstone for the crash.
One of the reviewers on this site said that it was "almost inconceivable" for a plane not to have radar. The Dakota was a version of the pre-WW2 DC-3/C-47 and was not manufactured past 1945 at the latest. Virtually NO Aircaft of WW2 with the exception of Night Fighters & some Night Bombers were equipped with Radar. Most DC-3/C-37/Dakotas were never equipped with radar.