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May 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mr Pryor-Bennett said his family had until now believed the young pilot had
died in crash. Instead, the wreckage of the plane suggests he made a
make-shift shelter using his parachute outside before walking away to find
help.
Mr Pryor-Bennett said: “My poor old mum didn’t live to find out what
happened to her brother or see him come back home.
“But if there is any chance of finding him now and bringing him home so
we can give him a funeral and pay our respects then I would fully support
any search and say good luck to then.
“My own son, John, is willing to go over to Egypt and help with the
search.
“I just hope they find him and bring him home.”
Flt Sgt Copping’s great-nephew, John Pryor-Bennett, 35, added: “He must
have had such a horrible and lonely death so it would be wonderful if we
could give him a funeral with his family around him.”
Flt Sgt Copping was based with the RAF’s 260 squadron during the North Africa
campaign in World War Two in 1942.
On June 28, 1942 he was on a routine flight to take his damaged Kittyhawk
plane from one airbase to another for repair when he lost his bearings and
came down in the middle of the Western desert.
His devastated parents, Sydney and Adelaide Copping, received a telegram at
their home in Southend, Essex, informing them their son was missing in
action.
The family held out hope that he would one day return after the war before
they accepted he had been killed in a plane crash.
Mr Pryor-Bennett, of Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, said: “My nan,
Dennis’ mother, lived with my parents for the last 11 years of her life.
“She had pictures of Dennis up in her room and there was one of him on
our mantlepiece.
“My mother, Edna, used to refer to him as ‘my dear little brother’. My
mother thought the world of him. We used to get flowers to mark his
birthday.
“The family received a telegram that he was missing in action and they
though Dennis had died in place crash in the desert, but it is now clear
that he survived for some time.
“It had a devastating effect on my nan. I remember on one occasion she
and my mum were doing the washing in a wringer and a number of planes went
overhead. My nan looked up almost in hope and caught her hand in the
wringer.
“When I was aged about nine, my brother and I would ask each other
whether we thought uncle Dennis was still alive in the desert somewhere.”
F/Sgt Copping was the youngest of five brothers and sisters: Lillian, Lionel,
Gordon and Edna.
Plans are also underway to try and recover the Kittyhawk, which was found by a
Polish oil company worker by chance.
The RAF Museum at Hendon, north London, is working with the defence attache to
secure the aircraft and return it to the UK.
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