An alternative account of why the operation did not take place was given when his niece, Lucy Fleming, visited his old office in the Admiralty. "The Bond Correspondence", a BBC Radio 4 radio programme broadcast on 24 May 2008, includes an interview there. Her subject in the Admiralty says that the idea was that the Germans would see the floating bomber and the "survivors" and send out a rescue vessel; but someone at the RAF pointed out that a downed Heinkel bomber would sink rather than float.