The unexplained loss of blimp L-8's crew

During the Second World War, US Navy blimp L-8 returned without either of its two crewmen. One proposed sequence begins with the crew marking a fuel slick with smoke floats. A man may have fallen through a door with known latch problems, while the other may then have stopped the engines and fallen while trying to help him. Neither crewman nor any trace of them was found, so the account remains conjectural. The incident occurred near San Francisco rather than in a remote patrol area, and the empty blimp's return left investigators with little evidence of what had happened.