Following the crash of a Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF 230 Squadron, delivering rice to the people of Kuantan, Malaya, a second Sunderland arrives to replace the lost rice and recover the crew.

A Sunderland ('Z') passes directly overhead with local people watching it arrive. People watch as it comes in to land. Sunderland landing. Local people on a wooden jetty. People on a river ferry. Sunderland taxiing. Sunderland taxis across shot right-to-left. The crews of the two Sunderlands meet; they enter shot from opposite sides and vigorously shake hands. Closer shot of Flight Lieutenant Moonlight (pilot of 'T for Tommy', the crashed plane) and Squadron Leader Nicholson (pilot of 'Z' ) shaking hands. 'Z' in midstream and 'T for Tommy' behind. 'Z' on her take off run; she lifts off the water. People watch the Sunderland recede into the distance.

Notes

RAF 230 Squadron's wartime service in the Far East was unusually well documented in film. For other film relating to them, see related items.

The dopesheet for JFU 362 names the crew of 'T for Tommy' as follows:

Flight Lieutenant Moonlight, Captain, of Spittal, Berwick on Tweed (seen meeting the other crew).

Flying Officer Jones, Navigator, of Llanelly, North Wales (seen meeting the other crew).

Flight Lieutenant McConnel, Wireless Operator, of Grays, Essex.

Flight Sergeant Thompson, Second Pilot, of Bevington, Cheshire.

Flight Sergeant Carrol, Second Engineer, of Salford, Manchester.

Flight Sergeant Collins, Engineer, of Knock, Belfast.

Flight Sergeant Brown, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner of Horncastle, Lancashire.

Flight Sergeant Boyd, Wireles Operator/Air Gunner of Largs, Ayrshire.

Passengers are named as:

Flight Lieutenant Tydeyman (Tideman?), Operations officer, of Brixham, Devon (seen meeting the other crew).

Sergeant Hardy (No.9 Army Film and Photographic Unit photographer) of London.

Sergeant Hammond (No.9 Army Film and Photographic Unit cameraman/photographer) of Kuantan, Malaya.

Sergeant Girling (No.9 Army Film and Photographic Unit cameraman/photographer) of Ruislip.

The dopesheet also names a Flying Officer Toller and 'a corporal' as being in the shot of the two crews meeting.