Burma Spitfire search finds water-filled crate that may contain plane
An excavation team searching for a stash of Second World War era British Spitfires in Burma says it has found a wooden crate believed to contain one of the planes, but it is full of muddy water. t was not immediately clear how much damage the water may have caused, and searchers could not definitively say what was inside the crate.
But British aviation enthusiast David J. Cundall, who is driving the hunt for the rare Spitfires, called the results “very encouraging.”
“It will take some time to pump the water out … but I do expect all aircraft to be in very good condition,” Mr Cundall said from Rangoon, Burma’s main city.
