Searchers find jet missing for decades

Archéologie sous-marine
le 30 septembre 2009

A U.S. Air Force training jet that disappeared in 1955 has been located in the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles, an aircraft archaeologist says. Volunteer searchers were looking for a World War II fighter when they came upon the wreckage of a Lockheed T-33A flown by Lt. Richard Martin Theiler and Lt. Paul Dale Smith, CNN reported Wednesday. Aircraft archaeologist Pat Macha says the discovery came after a computer expert in Texas spotted something on a high-definition U.S. Geological Survey image of the Santa Monica Bay ocean floor. Macha says he suspected that "what looked like a few little pixtels" could be the World War II fighter of Women's Air Force Service pilot Gertrude V. "Tommy" Tompkins Silver that was presumed lost at sea in 1944. Of the 38 WASP pilots who died in World War II, [...]


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