It was covered with writing. Many people thought it was a message from Eleanor Dare to her father, telling him the colonists fled the island after an Indian attack.
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Ms. Bary stated she thoughtherfather would strike her with the computer, but he did not.
She said her father's friends thought he might have reached forward to pick something up from the floor and encountered turbulence which flipped his aircraft over.