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The sea may be giving answers to a 64-year-old tragedy
When it rains, it pours! First Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's
reconnaissance P-38 from 1944 was found in the sea near Marseille and the Swedish ELINT DC-3 from 1952 was recovered from the Baltic Sea, and now this: http://www.pelastamalmi.org/en/bulletins/kaleva.html (While you're there, please take a minute to sign the petition to save the living, historic Malmi Airport from being turned into a suburb.) S. |
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Great post - thanks for the info.
v/r Gordon ====(A+C==== USN SAR An LZ is a place you want to land, not stay. |
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Are photos of trhe raising of this aircraft available anywhere?
the Swedish ELINT DC-3 from 1952 was recovered from the Baltic Sea, |
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"Jdf4cheval" skrev i meddelandet ... Are photos of trhe raising of this aircraft available anywhere? the Swedish ELINT DC-3 from 1952 was recovered from the Baltic Sea, http://www.mil.se/article.php?id=9768 (Swedish armed forces' collection page about the recovery of the ELINT DC-3) http://www.mil.se/index.php?lang=S&c=news&id=20590 (The DC-3 aircraft is recovered 19th March at 00.20 hours) Text is in Swedish I'm afraid. Regards, Per Nordenberg |
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Thanks, Per. Very informative and interesting, and some of the text is readable
to English speakers .. http://www.mil.se/article.php?id=9768 (Swedish armed forces' collection page about the recovery of the ELINT DC-3) http://www.mil.se/index.php?lang=S&c=news&id=20590 (The DC-3 aircraft is recovered 19th March at 00.20 hours) Text is in Swedish I'm afraid. Regards, Per Nordenberg |
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"Jdf4cheval" skrev i meddelandet ... Thanks, Per. Very informative and interesting, and some of the text is readable to English speakers There is news today that the missing TP-47 Catalina #47002 ( http://www.avrosys.nu/aircraft/Transport/265Tp47.htm ) has now been found by the same team that found the ELINT DC-3. It was found on it's nose at a depth of over 100m. This aircraft was shot down three days after the downing of the ELINT DC-3 when it was engaged in search and rescue operations. The missing TP-47 Catalina sea plane was found some 20-22 km east of the position given in official reports, and the discrepancy is believed to depend on the fact that Sw authorities didn't want it to look as if the Catalina had voilated Soviet air space. The fact is thought that it hadn't been violating Soviet air space, but another Catalina had strayed over land as a result of a navigational error by the crew. The Soviets mistook the first Catalina for the one that had been over the mainland, and shot it down. The two Mig-15 had to exhaust their ammo however before the Catalina pilot decided to put the aircraft down beside a West german freighter. It is unlikely however that the Catalina will be recovered, since there is another example at the Sw Air Force museum at Malmslätt ( http://www.flygvapenmuseum.se/english/index.htm ) Regards, Per Nordenberg |
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Thanks once again, Per, for another fascinating look into a piece of Swedish
aviation archaeology. Joe |
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