{"id":38293,"date":"2011-08-01T11:05:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T08:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=38293"},"modified":"2023-04-06T00:55:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T21:55:59","slug":"wwii-era-war-british-bomber-found-in-sea-off-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/08\/01\/wwii-era-war-british-bomber-found-in-sea-off-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"WWII-era war &#8220;British bomber&#8221; found in sea off Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WWII-era war &#8220;British bomber&#8221; found in sea off Turkey<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-38295\" title=\"w2-bomber\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/w2-bomber.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"300\" \/>By the help of a fisherman, Turkish scientists discovered the plane as they dived 1.5 miles off Finike town of Antalya.<\/p>\n<p>A World War II war plane, believed to be a British bomber, has been found at the bottom of the sea off the Mediterranean coast of Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>By the help of a fisherman, Turkish scientists discovered the plane as they dived 1.5 miles off Finike town of Antalya. The plane was lying off 35 meters below the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Mehmet Gokoglu, one of the scientists working on marine life, said he was told by a fisherman that there was a sunken war plane at the bottom of the sea in Finike Bay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fisherman showed us where exactly the plane was and we found the wreck at our first dive,&#8221; Gokoglu said. &#8220;The fuselage is almost intact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gokoglu and other divers also found 20mm unexploded anti-aircraft shells near the sunken plane and a part which reads &#8220;British Manufacture&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was probably an aircraft of the British Royal Air Force,&#8221; Gokoglu said.<\/p>\n<p>A 80-year-old local man said he saw the plane crash when he was a child. Huseyin Taskin said there were German, Italian and British war planes and warships in the bay during the World War II.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was 12 or 13 when I saw the tragedy. The plane was burning in the air, it lost altitude and after a while it hit the sea surface. I do not know if anyone survived,&#8221; Taskin said.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish officials informed the Coast Guard and Naval Forces about the sunken wreck.<\/p>\n<p>AA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWII-era war &#8220;British bomber&#8221; found in sea off Turkey By the help of a fisherman, Turkish scientists discovered the plane as they dived 1.5 miles off Finike town of Antalya. A World War II war plane, believed to be a British bomber, has been found at the bottom of the sea off the Mediterranean coast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":38295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[1591,6602,6600,6601,2802],"class_list":["post-38293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-antalya","tag-british-bomber","tag-british-royal-air-force","tag-finike","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}