University Of Delaware Students Located The B-24 During A School Expedition

Students from the University of Deleware ’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment (CEOE) spending the Winter Session at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) made an historic discovery during their stay. The students located fragments of a B-24 bomber that went down in the ocean off the coast of the island in February, 1945.

The students began by studying the weather conditions the night of the accident, and narrowed down a region to search for the wreckage. Then, they used an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to conduct their search, according to a report posted on the university website.

The AUV took about three hours to find the wreckage, according to senior student Amanda Obosnenko. Then divers went into the water to get a closer look at what was left of the plane.

Fox News reports that the aircraft was on a ferry flight to Portugal when it went down, according to Bermuda's Royal Gazette.

There are no plans to try to recover the wreckage, according to the Fox News report. The location of the plane has been reported to local authorities in Bermuda, which will be responsible along with relevant U.S. government entities for the protection of the wreck.

(Image from file. Not accident airplane)

FMI: UD source report,
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