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Wreckage from British aircraft with ‘mysterious cargo’ discovered near Turkey’s Van Lake
Wreckage from British aircraft with ‘mysterious cargo’ discovered near Turkey’s Van Lake
An environmentalist group has discovered the remains of a British aircraft that crashed with a “mysterious cargo” almost 60 years ago near Van Lake in eastern Turkey. Click through for the story in photos...
Demirören News Agency reported on Aug. 28 that the Van Lake Activists Association organized its fourth expedition to the summit of Mount Süphan to raise awareness about keeping the nearby Van Lake clean.
A total of 23 members of the association climbed to the 4,058-meter summit of Turkey’s third highest mountain, but it was not the true climax of the event. Photo: Evgeny Dubinchuk / Alamy Stock Photo
At the summit, the group found some remains of G-AGRH Zephyr, which was an Avro Super Trader IV cargo aircraft that crashed on the mountain amid strong wings on April 23, 1959.
“We have found some parts of the aircraft below the glacier at the summit. Its engine could be seen in the lake on larger glaciers that have dried,” the association’s chairman Erdoğan Özel said.
It was reported almost six decades ago that a special Royal Air Force mountain rescue team of six men from Cyprus reached the crash site at the top of the mountain several days after the crash and demolished the plane wreckage with explosives. The cargo could be of nuclear origin, according to unconfirmed reports.
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