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Discovering a submerged Boeing aircraft

It will be the attraction of an underwater park - VIDEO

Deliberately sinking planes seems to have become a fad. Turkey has swept an Airbus off the coast of Gallipoli to turn it into a tourist attraction for scuba diving. Now Bahrain has sunk 30 km from its coasts in the Persian Gulf an old Boeing 747 plane, 70 meter long with a 64 meter wingspan, to make it the main attraction of an underwater theme park. The largest aircraft ever immersed for the largest...

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Manama, Bahrain, 06/20/2019 21:42
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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