Regarding your observations de fact is that I never flew the P-2V5. In 1969 I was a captain stationed in the former Portuguese Guinea-Bissau.
We were conducting anti-guerrila operations operations and the aircraft I flew at that time were G-91s and armed T-6s. The unit was Air Base º 12 Bissalanca close nearby the capital Bissau.
During the secession of Biafra from Nigeria which lasted from 1967 to 1970 the Biafrans tryed to obtain an air power capability to defend themselves from the Nigerian armed forces. They tryed to buy many outdated and phased out aircraft and recover them to flight condition.
Pieter Mattheus de Zeeuw
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I had more success at the NIMH. There I immediately received a number of links from newspaper articles. Of course I started reading it and I soon found
out that the name Peter Matteus was probably a pseudonym because the official name of the Dutch pilot was Pieter Mattheus de Zeeuw.
In the spring of 1962, after serving his sentence, he was honorably discharged from military service, according to the newspaper. I don't believe the latter,
because with such a punishment you can never be honorably discharged. I therefore contacted the Royal Netherlands Air Force again and asked them to look for him now by his real name. That name also did not appear in the personnel file and the officer agreed that if someone is dishonorably discharged he/she will
be immediately removed from the personnel file.
?he was saved, has ? since his arrival in ? nine days ago, ? kept hidden.
Everything indicates that Pieter de Zeeuw was busy flying the plane – Gloster Meteor –over to Biafra. This has left the British government in serious embarrassment, because England supports the policy of the ? government in Nigeria.
In addition to De Zeeuw’s plane, there is another Meteor on its way to Biafra, also an aircraft with an English registration. This fighter jet even came directly from the British Ministry of Defence. These planes were bought by ?Osborne, the 31-year-old owner of Target Towing ?
According to the English daily The Times, which has launched an in-depth investigation into the affair, Osborne made his planes available to Phoenix Airways, a? American company that would use the planes for a film about the ? nse war.
For this purpose, the planes were flown to Faro in Portugal, well out of the way but well on the way to Biafra. And the Portuguese sympathy for Biafra is ?
Phoenix has a branch in Madeira. Both aircraft left ? with destination Madeira on ?September. The remaining Meteor would now be in Dakar in Africa. The other Meteor was flown by Pieter de Zeeuw from Madeira to the Cape Verde Islands on 28 October.
In a letter to his mother in Rotterdam, he writes that he jumped out of the plane because it had an engine failure in bad weather.
?was exactly the pretext, including Osborne ten ? had obtained a temporary export license in England for the aircraft from Phoenix.
According to the certificate from the Ministry of Defense, the Meteors should have been back several months ago.
According to TheTimes, Pieter de Zeeuw was contracted last year by an English company to fly Hunter-type fighter jets in Biafra.