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Curtiss CT32 found

Posted by Tony on Thu Nov 15, 2001 02:23:19 PM

Sorry, story is 2 years old........

Dateline: Honduras--Proving that there's always a bright side to every story, last year's deadly Hurricane Mitch helped solve a 57-year-old plane crash mystery. In addition to killing 9,000 people and causing millions of dollars in damages, the rampaging storm uncovered the wreckage of a Curtis CT-32 biplane that went down in 1942. The plane, along with its five-member crew, was considered lost at sea, but mudslides caused by Mitch helped unearth the long-lost wreck near the Caribbean coast, about 120 miles north of the capital Tegucigalpa. Air Force officials are now trying to recover the remains of the victims to give them proper Christian burials.

Other possibe recoveries, survivors.....

BT-32 54 Colombia AF [651], sank in river 1944
R4C-1 57 USN [9584], abandoned in Antarctica 1/3/41, still there under the snow
R4C-1 58 USN [9585], abandoned in Antarctica 3/22/41, assumed blown out to sea

BT-32 54 Colombia AF [651], sank in river 1944

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