aaaargh whats this film?

[DAVE FILM]

its not flight of the pheonix, the film starts with a plane crashing over the desert althougn they think its the sea as the reflection of the moon makes the sand look like water, the crew are sitting on the crashed plane discussing life etc as they one by one dissapear. the twist is the men are dead (ghosts) and they dissapear as there bodies are discovered later in life? please help im going mad!!!!!!!!

[wusspuss]

'Sole Survivor'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,- 20660,00.html

[PEATBOG]

CBS' first made-for-TV movie, Sole Survivor is a creepy yarn founded on fact. In 1960, the ruins of an American bomber were found in the Libyan desert-but the remains of the crew were never located. In Guerdon S. Trueblood's teleplay, the ghosts of a bomber crew hang around their derelict plane, awaiting the day that their bones will be recovered and given a decent burial. The sole survivor, navigator Russell Hamner (Richard Basehart), has in the intervening 25 years become a general. He joins an investigation team that has come across the wreckage-while the ghosts, headed by Major Devlin (Vince Edwards), plot to expose Hamner as a coward who deserted his post and left his crewmates to die. Sole Survivor premiered January 9, 1970.

This is just a little bit of factual information, which inspired the story of
SOLE SURVIVOR below are the real facts.

On Apr. 4, 1943, 25 B-24Ds of the 376th Bomb Group took off from their AAF base at Soluch, Libya, for a high-altitude bombing attack against harbour facilities at Naples, Italy. All planes but one returned safely to Allied territory that night--the one, which was missing, was the Lady Be Good. Almost 16 years later on Nov. 9th, 1958, several British geologists were flying over the desolate, sun-baked Libyan Desert. At approximately 400 miles south of Soluch, they spotted an aircraft on the sand. A ground party, which reached the site in March 1959, discovered the plane to be a B-24D. The "Lady Be Good" had been found

I have bought it on ebay and this is the write up for it..