Frozen in the sands of time: Eerie Second World War RAF fighter plane discovered in the Sahara... 70 years after it crashed in the desert

[Valin]

The Daily Mail

Paul Harris

10 May 2012

 

He was hundreds of miles from civilisation, lost in the burning heat of the desert.

 

Second World War Flight Sergeant Dennis Copping took what little he could from the RAF Kittyhawk he had just crash-landed, then wandered into the emptiness.

 

From that day in June 1942 the mystery of what happened to the dentist’s son from Southend was lost, in every sense, in the sands of time.

 

 

 

Shifting sands: The final resting place of the Kittyhawk P-40 has been discovered in the Sahara 70 years after it crashed there

 

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At the controls: The plane's cockpit, but there are fears over what will be left of it after locals began stripping parts and instruments for souvenirs and scrap

 

Signs of survival: Flight Sergeant Dennis Copping's parachute was part of what is believed to be a makeshift camp alongside the fuselage

[Valin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRkdkgmGXx8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8qQFx52Tw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFLhlon0MuU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnLjAtNHc7M

[RandyM]

Wow!! That's an interesting discovery!

[Pepper]

Sole Survivor (1970 film)