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New Fri 11 May 12 13:22 
 Non-motoring cos there's no engine! - TheManWithNoName
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New Fri 11 May 12 16:11 
 Non-motoring cos there's no engine! - devonite
If it has remained undiscovered for 70 years and was only found by chance almost, where have all these "Locals" suddenly appeared from to strip-it?
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New Fri 11 May 12 16:23 
 Non-motoring cos there's no engine! - Armel Coussine
There are people in the Sahara although they are thinly spread. The nearest actual town may be 200 miles away but there will be villages or temporary encampments nearer. That plane has certainly been seen over the years, but evidently not by many people.

Note by the way the rocky ground. A surprising amount of the desert is like that. I've been in other parts of the Sahara a dozen times but never seen the big sand dunes so often photographed. If that place is on a rocky plateau with no old deep watercourses on it, it may be a very long way from the nearest available water, for a lost man on foot.

Today desert people have Toyotas and Land Rovers as well as camels (and indeed horses). Someone might feel it's worth dragging the engine out of that plane and selling it at Sotheby's.
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New Fri 11 May 12 16:49 
 Non-motoring cos there's no engine! - Mapmaker
>>Someone might feel it's worth dragging the engine out of that plane and selling it at

Be better off selling the entire thing at Sotheby's.
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New Fri 11 May 12 17:02 
 Non-motoring cos there's no engine! - sherlock47
>>Historians are urging the British government to step in sooner rather than later and have the scene declared as a war grave so it can be protected before the plane is recovered. <<

What planet are they on? Do they really think that a 'declaration' will stop locals stripping it (for money?).
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New Fri 11 May 12 17:12 
 Non-motoring cos there's no engine! - Ian (Cape Town)
One of the SAAF's Shackletons force-landed in the middle of the sahara desert back in 1994, and within 2 days was stripped of EVERYTHING moveable.
Apparently there was no signs of life around for miles and miles, yet the hordes descended en mass and carted everything away!

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New Fri 11 May 12 17:35 
 Non-motoring cos there's no engine! - Armel Coussine
Desert landscapes are hard for outsiders to read, especially in photos. But the skyline in the main photo doesn't seem all that far off and is broken and hilly.

There must be some reason for the relatively undisturbed state of the plane. By some fluke it must be invisible from any well-travelled route and may indeed be on a hostile, waterless stony plateau that the routes go round instead of across. Could be too that there is no viable road in or out even for a 4wd driven by a desert expert, although such places are surprisingly rare. Perhaps only a Chinook could carry the remains out.

A lot of Libyans lived for years on scrap tanks and trucks left behind after the WW2 battles there, and perhaps drove about in some of them too. But although no one is saying where this aircraft is, one supposes it is in the Egyptian Western desert somewhere near the Libyan frontier. People forget that Egypt is huge and a lot of it is desert.
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New Sat 12 May 12 11:39 
 Non-motoring cos there's no engine! - Cliff Pope
>> >>declared as a war grave
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But it isn't a grave, it's a crashed aeroplane. It seems the pilot walked off and presumably died somewhere else.
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