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Specially-configured Metroliner aircraft involved in surveillance operations in Libya crashes shortly after takeoff from Malta

October 24, 2016 David Cenciotti 4

Chilling dashcam video shows a Fairchild SA227-AT Expediter crashing after takeoff from Malta killing 5 people on board. On Oct. 24, a twin-prop Fairchild Metroliner aircraft, in a special configuration required to undertake surveillance missions, […]

"Aviation equivalent of Tutankhamun's Tomb" in Western Sahara: a perfectly preserved plane found 70 years after it went down

May 10, 2012 Richard Clements 3

Polish oil company worker Jakub Perka was exploring a remote region of the Western Sahara desert in Egypt when he stumbled across a plane, later identified as a UK’s Royal Air Force P-40 Warhawk, almost […]