Help from an interesting source - Bob Ballard
From the
UK Telegraph:
Titanic discoverer locates Turkish pilots shot down by Syria
The discovery of the two corpses on the seabed could help to settle an argument over whether the plane was shot down in international airspace or over Syrian territorial waters.
Turkey recruited the services of Robert Ballard, a renowned oceanographer who discovered the wreckage of the Titanic in 1985, to locate the remains of the F-4 Phantom and its two missing crew members.
The bodies of Gokhan Ertan and Hasan Huseyin Aksov were located by the MV Nautilus, an American deep-sea exploration vessel led by Mr Ballard. The boat is now attempting to retrieve the remains of the two men.
The wreckage of the plane itself has yet to be found. Turkey will hope that its retrieval will boost its case that Syria shot the aircraft down deliberately and without warning in international airspace -- although it has acknowledged that the plane probably drifted into Syrian waters when it crashed.
I have had a huge man-crush on Dr. Ballard for a long long time. Turkey is an Islamic state but it is also a fully functioning Democracy and it doesn't mess in other Nations politics(that much). Syria on the other hand...
Cool that Dr. Ballard was able to do the work that he is doing -- I do not know but he is probably continuing his work on
Noah's Flood in the Black Sea.
Posted by DaveH at July 5, 2012 8:22 AM