Mon, Nov 05, 2007
Local Gwynedd Historical Council Planning Restoration
A Lockheed-P38 Lightning has been
found after washing up on a beach in Wales, England after being
submerged in sand for more than 60 years, according to the BBC. The
Lockheed P-38 was designed in 1937. According to the US Air Force,
9,923 P-38s were built by 1945, but only 27 of the aircraft
survive.
Gwynedd Council's maritime department is to protect the site of
the plane while its restoration is arranged. The council is not
revealing the precise location of the wreckage in the interest of
public safety and to protect the aircraft.
Barry Davies, a maritime officer for the council, said he has
known about the wreckage near Harlech for several weeks, and says
this is probably the first time since crashing that it has been
seen. Davies said the plane was found by a member of the public who
was walking on the beach.
The plane is visible at certain stages of the tide and Davies
has visited the site himself and seen the wings. "It still has a
lot of high octane fuel onboard, so it's important that the public
doesn't go near it."
Locals attribute a "draw down of the beach level" for its recent
exposure.
According to the BBC report, experts from the US have been over
to examine the wreckage but no decision has been made about how it
will be recovered from the sand.
He said: "At the moment it's going to be a difficult and
expensive process to salvage it because of its location." Another
Lockheed P-38, forced to land in Greenland in bad weather during
World War II, became buried under ice there.
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