Drone_pilot
23-07-04, 10:18
The remains of a World War II fighter plane which crashed into The Wash 64 years ago has been recovered.
The de Haviland Mosquito was on a training mission with two crew on board on 20 March 1945 when it crashed a mile-and-a-half off north Norfolk.
No attempt was ever made to find the plane but the wreckage was spotted in April during a survey of a rarely-used shipping channel at King's Lynn.
The bodies of the crew are expected to be buried in a military cemetery.
An MoD marine salvage team from Plymouth lifted the wreckage on Thursday after a recce by a Royal Navy diving team from Portsmouth.
The families of the two pilots, Flt Lieut Gabriel Ellis, from Norwich, and Sgt William Reidy, from Boscombe, Dorset, had not heard anything of the flyers in the intervening years.
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/3917503.stm)
The de Haviland Mosquito was on a training mission with two crew on board on 20 March 1945 when it crashed a mile-and-a-half off north Norfolk.
No attempt was ever made to find the plane but the wreckage was spotted in April during a survey of a rarely-used shipping channel at King's Lynn.
The bodies of the crew are expected to be buried in a military cemetery.
An MoD marine salvage team from Plymouth lifted the wreckage on Thursday after a recce by a Royal Navy diving team from Portsmouth.
The families of the two pilots, Flt Lieut Gabriel Ellis, from Norwich, and Sgt William Reidy, from Boscombe, Dorset, had not heard anything of the flyers in the intervening years.
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/3917503.stm)