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Re: here u go...........and he has been busy........
Posted by Elliott on Thu Dec 27, 2001 08:13:34 AM
In reply top here u go...........and he has been busy........ posted by Tony on Fri Dec 21, 2001 10:18:14 AM
Well done bloke..
: British WW2 aircraft found off Cyprus coast
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: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/exlibr
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: Nicosia - A team of one Turkish Cypriot and three Swiss di
: vers have discovered a British World War 2 plane in the Me
: diterranean off the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (T
: RNC), one of the divers said on Wednesday.
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: The divers also discovered a skeleton, presumably that of
: the pilot, and munition inside the aircraft, said Gurdal M
: ehmetcik, the Turkish Cypriot member of the team.
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: The plane was found last Saturday at a depth of 27 metres,
: some 30km from the port city of Kyrenia.
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: Mehmetcik, who also owns a diving club in the TRNC, said t
: he craft was well-preserved. It was not clear what type of
: plane it was.
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: The plane was thought to have crashed into the sea after b
: eing hit by Germans while en route to Africa during World
: War 2.
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: The divers have contacted British diplomatics in Cyprus to
: clarify procedures for handing over the remains.
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: It was not immediately clear when the plane would be taken
: out of the water.
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: Cyprus has been divided into a Greek Cypriot south and a T
: urkish Cypriot north since 1974, when Turkey occupied the
: northern third in response to an Athens-engineered militar
: y coup in Nicosia seeking to united the island with Greece
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: Greek Cyprus is internationally recognised, while the TRNC
: is recognized only by Turkey. - Sapa-AFP
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