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30-05-04, 21:51
A team of diggers are planning to hunt for a World War II fighter plane which crashed after downing a Nazi bomber near Buckingham Palace.
Pilot Ray Holmes ran out of ammunition so flew his Hurricane into the German Dornier on 15 September 1940.
He managed to use his aircraft to slice off the bomber's tail and he bailed out before his plane hit Buckingham Palace Road at the junction with Ebury Bridge.
A team will be filmed live as they try to find the plane's shell on Sunday.
If they succeed, it will go on display as part of Westminster's West End at War weekend on 12 and 13 June.
But the team are not expecting to find it resembles the plane much - it hit the ground at about 350 miles an hour.
Archaeologists began digging at the site on Saturday.
They found fragments of the Hurricane which included pieces of its engine block, wooden tail fin, fuselage and a section of hydraulic pipe.
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3760097.stm)
Pilot Ray Holmes ran out of ammunition so flew his Hurricane into the German Dornier on 15 September 1940.
He managed to use his aircraft to slice off the bomber's tail and he bailed out before his plane hit Buckingham Palace Road at the junction with Ebury Bridge.
A team will be filmed live as they try to find the plane's shell on Sunday.
If they succeed, it will go on display as part of Westminster's West End at War weekend on 12 and 13 June.
But the team are not expecting to find it resembles the plane much - it hit the ground at about 350 miles an hour.
Archaeologists began digging at the site on Saturday.
They found fragments of the Hurricane which included pieces of its engine block, wooden tail fin, fuselage and a section of hydraulic pipe.
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3760097.stm)