Would love to listen to this cassette 40 years on. "Stendec" refers to a cryptic message transmitted by the doomed Star Dust in its final moments:
On 2 August 1947, Star Dust, a British South American Airways (BSAA) Avro Lancastrian airliner on a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Santiago, Chile, crashed into Mount Tupungato, in the Argentine Andes. An extensive search operation failed to locate the wreckage, despite covering the area of the crash site, and the fate of the aircraft and its occupants remained unknown for over 50 years, giving rise to various conspiracy theories about its disappearance.
The last word in Star Dust's final Morse Code transmission to Santiago airport, "STENDEC", was received by the airport control tower four minutes before its planned landing and repeated twice; it has never been satisfactorily explained.
The website for Search And Rescue Technology, Inc. has a detailed breakdown of Morse code and radio technicalities behind the "Stendec" mystery, concluding that the mystery message was slightly garbled by the receiver and was simply a routine attempt at contacting the Santiago airport.
From Fate, Volume 34 - Number 6, June 1981.
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