The aircraft flew directly in from the sea up 'Coombe Bottom', over Ventnor Railway Station, in a gentle arc towards the camera, striking the ground below the fence, demolishing it and coming to rest some 250 yards behind and to the left of the photographer.
This is where we think the crew thought they were - about one minutes flying time along the coast. Here the hills are much lower with a rolling landscape - but if you compare the right hand side of this picture with the one above, you may think that the two hillsides are deceptively similar, particularly in low cloud and rain while travelling in a vibrating and noisy piston engined aircraft at 150 miles per hour looking out through small plastic steamy windows! Turning here to follow the coast line would have been acomplished without any drama as the land falls gently back to the sea.
This is of course conjecture, but there would seem to be some justification for the theory.