Diver and underwater filmmaker Ben Cropp recently announced that
he had located a wrecked plane in 20 feet of
water “about half a mile” off the tip of Cape York, . Claiming the WWII wreck has a wing span of more
than 90 feet, Cropp believes the plane is either a B24 Liberator bomber, a B17 Fortress, or a Japanese Emily flying
boat. He claims he’ll make the final determination of the kind of plane by “counting the pistons…or
by finding the name of the engine on the cowling.” Cropp maintains that he found the wing tip and three engines
of the war plane, as well as its coral-covered fuselage, while filming a documentary called The Silent
Warriors.
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[Via Underwater Times]
