RE: The complete text
Guys,
Sorry to resurrect this thread again, but I’ve not been around… I’ve read through the text Tony posted and noticed this:
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Maj Robert De Jong, who was the senior officer during the excavation of Lancaster J for Johnnie, says: “There was a political decision made on governmental level that we should see all the crash sites as field graves and respect them as such.
“So what we do now is only excavate an aircraft the moment it poses a danger to its environment which is the case here.
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So aircraft will be excavated “when they pose a danger to their environment”?
Now, someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but haven’t we recently had the case of a four engined heavy found in a lake somewhere, which is still loaded with a Cookie and God knows what else? Quite rightly with such a potentially unstable load of explosives on board, no-one’s all that keen to get the thing raised, yet the stance noted above suggests to me that this is exactly the time they’d go for it.
Or there’s another case – again I’m sorry I can’t remember which aircraft it is – of an aircraft in a freshwater fjord, which the Norwegian authorities won’t allow to be raised because they’re worried about the fuel and oil on board the thing leaking out and contaminating the local water systems. And of course, if it stays in metal tanks, it’s not ever going to rust and get out that way, is it? The stupidity of some of these authorities just astounds me.
Sorry if I seem like I’m going off on one, but having only just read the thread for the first time, it’s got me bubbling a bit. Or maybe thats the sun on me ‘ead… 😉
Anyway, to echo some of the sentiments already expressed in, ahem, slightly more considered tones, I think it’s fair to say that everyone on here is appalled by our supposedly caring sharing smiling government’s attitude.
Like I said in a different topic earlier; LEST WE FORGET.
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