Philippe Cousteau at the controls of the PBY Catalina, Lake Victoria, 1978

1978

Philippe Cousteau at the controls of the PBY Catalina, Lake Victoria, 1978

Philippe Cousteau piloting the team's PBY Catalina over Lake Victoria in July 1978. He died in June 1979 when the same type of aircraft crashed on take-off at Lisbon.

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