It is reported that Filipino souvenir hunters have stripped the partially-submerged plane, taking away sions, clocks, whisky and even the lane's log.
Starting on its leisurely return Journey to Berlin, the Condor plane hopped off from Tokyo at 5.37 this morning. The plane was due back in Berlin by December 17.
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With strong winds causing heavy seas today, the half-submerged German Condor monoplane was being rapidly broken up by pounding.
Aviation circles here believed that unless the giant four-engined trans-[Port plane is salvaged immediately it would become a total loss, The typhoon which struck the Philippines this morning caused the waves to rise and batter the crashed plane and it was believed that the plane, despite its all-metal structure, was suffering from action of the surging waters.
Dr. Heinrich Junge, chief engineer of the Focke-Wult Company, builders of the giant transport plane, which created two world speed records, one for a flight from Berlin to New York'
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