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Re: Good luck Cees and God speed....
Posted by Cees Broere on Wed Oct 30, 2002 03:23:33 AM
In reply top Re: Good luck Cees and God speed.... posted by peter on Tue Oct 29, 2002 08:02:05 PM
Peter,
Sorry to dissapoint you but the entire airframe rolled itself into a ball upon contact with the water. The airframe is totally demolished as far as we could see during our many visits to the site. The wingspars are of course very substantial so they could be relatively intact same goes for the centrefuselage with the bombbay. But everything is submerged in the mud. The layer of mud could be as much as five metres.
We have recovered one third of the bombbay which was intact and complete with several bombcarries (emtpy ones).
So it no case of using lifting bags. Priority is the location and recovery of the missing persons.
Cees