Wreckage Of Korean War-Era Skyraider

Recently there seems to be a trend in people finding wreckage of old airplane crashes. The other week I posted an article about hikers finding the wreckage of a Chilean airplane crash and today I found an article about divers who found the wreckage of a Korean War-era Douglas A-1 Skyraider. This wreckage was found off the coast of San Diego earlier this week while two divers, Dennis Burns and Ruth Yu were exploring shallow waters off Mission Beach. According to the article the airplane was submerged about 60 feet and its identification plate confirmed it was a plan that had crash landed in 1953. Also a part of the wreckage were two cannons on each wing of the plane along with hundreds of other objects. The most interesting part of this article was that these divers tracked down the family of the now deceased pilot and were able to learn about his life after he survived this crash. Currently the divers are working with the San Diego Air and Space Museum to turn this plan into a museum piece possible as an underwater exhibit. The aircraft they found, shown below, was a single seat piston powered attack aircraft that was produced from 1945 until the middle of the 1950s and it was used in the Korean and Vietnam Wars,

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