Hi everybody,
I am “the guy named Gilles Collaveri” , the leader and organizer this recovery plan;
LEMB team kindly pointed out this link to me , so I am glad to share the following information with you all here.
Basically, what is described here above is correct: we prepared this operation during one year, we were an excellent team of four people, we had the official green light of all French Administration, we have a sponsor: “328” the group based in Germany (British owner) providing aircraft services and in charge of the Do328 navigability, group which who was already involved in the Chanel DO17 recovery, let me thank them officially foe their support, and the challenge was to go 90 Meters deep to get Do217 parts back.
This was really a success: good team, good spirit, good food, and nice parts. Although we found no outstanding items, we took back many airframe parts, some with marking.
Yes, some parts will go to the Berlin Technik museum and some to Toulouse museum, “Aeroscopia”, to open next year.
Just an observation concerning this remark here above :
“The Resistance who operated in the mountains feared they would be blamed for the crashes and set about hiding all evidence down a very deep cave. Nobody spoke of it for years after that in order to protect the local community“.
This is not exactly correct: the resistance was never involved. It is the local inhabitants who throw the remains in the cavehole. The exact reason is unknown, but it was most probably to get rid of the past and clean the forest. In this area, all the hole are used as “trash bin”.
I shall write a full article on this operation in a few months : if you want to receive a copy, send me your mail with a PM.
Have a look at the BBC article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24159975
where you have a couple of nice pictures made by my friend Pierre Etienne Langenfeld,
All best, and have a good day.
Gilles
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