Overview
Sea Witch is the aircraft in “Dark Peak.” It is a fictional Wellington identified as SR131 and flown on a postwar mission to a decommissioning yard near Inverness.
Role
Irving Platt pilots Sea Witch north with Martin Mercure as co-pilot and Brendan Childs at the wireless post. The aircraft’s name appears in the mission dossier, provoking Platt because he considers naming an aircraft unlucky.
Sea Witch becomes increasingly vulnerable as the weather turns violent over Dark Peak. The wireless fails, lightning tears through the hull, and the cockpit fills with sparks, broken glass, and water. Platt loses Mercure from the co-pilot’s seat, the controls break away, and the aircraft crashes.
After the crash, Platt wakes on the moor with no sign of Sea Witch. The aircraft’s disappearance marks the transition from a physical flight into the story’s supernatural space.