June Tabor sings it on - not quite sure - 'Aquaba'? And Iain MacKintosh on 'Risks and Roses', available from Greentrax. I think there is a true story, or at least a true background to the song, but I've tried in vain to find out from German and English pigeon racing bodies when exactly this disaster happened. I seem to remember reading about it in the papers in the early Eighties. - Susanne